Decision Support for Countering Terrorist Threats against Transportation Networks

Countering Insider Threats

This article summarizes the objectives and structure of a seminar with the same title, held from July 20th to July 25th, 2008, at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. The seminar brought together researchers and policy-makers from all involved communities, to clarify what it is that identifies an insider threat, and to develop a common vision of how an insider can be categorized as well as an integrated ...

Protecting against terrorist attacks for urban transportation projects

Arup has undertaken security risk assessments for designs and analyses of major infrastructure projects. As part of engineering team efforts, Arup Risk Consulting performs risk assessments and supports decision analyses for threats of explosives and chemical, biological or radiological agents for buildings, urban transit centres, bridges, public bus systems and airport facilities. The work is t...

Countering Emerging Threats Technologies for Asymmetrical Warfare ,

How Terrorist Groups End: Implications for Countering al Qa'ida

T he United States cannot conduct an eff ective counterterrorism campaign against al Qa’ida or other terrorist groups without understanding how such groups end. While it is clear that U.S. policymakers will need to turn to a range of policy instruments to conduct such campaigns—including careful police and intelligence work, military force, political negotiations, and economic sanctions—what is...

A Decision Support System for Predicting Traffic Diversion Impacts across Transportation Networks using Support Vector Regression

This paper describes follow-up research to a previous study by the authors which used CaseBased Reasoning (CBR) and Support Vector Regression (SVR) to evaluate the likely impacts of implementing diversion strategies in response to incidents on highway networks. In the previous study, the training and testing of the CBR and SVR tools were performed on a single transportation network from South C...