Process Industries handling, producing and storing bulk amount of hazardous materials are
a major source of concern in terms of both safety and security. Safety and security cannot be …

Publisher Summary According to the US Department of Transportation (US DOT), a
hazardous material is defined as any substance or material capable of causing harm to …

The main focus of this paper is to study empirically the impact of terrorism on the behavior of
stock, bond and commodity markets. We consider terrorist events that took place in 25 …

We propose a definition of infrastructure resilience that is tied to the operation (or function) of
an infrastructure as a system of interacting components and that can be objectively …

This research introduces an influence diagram based approach to estimating task lead times
for Agile Kanban project management. Derived from the principles of lean manufacturing …

Chemical industrial parks, being critical infrastructures, are susceptible to domino effects
triggered by intentional attacks. Previous research on security risk management has mainly …

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the subsequent establishment of the
US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), considerable efforts have been made to …

This paper develops a framework for analyzing a defender's allocation of scarce resources
against a strategic adversary like a terrorist group in four settings:(1) a baseline case in …

The extreme importance of critical infrastructures to modern society is widely recognized.
These infrastructures are complex and interdependent. Protecting the critical infrastructures …

This paper discusses the Dynamic Input–Output Inoperability Model (DIIM), which is an
extension to the static Inoperability Input–Output Model (IIM). Based on Wassily Leontief's …