[Iefac.list] Call for Papers: Special Issue of Risk Analysis on Validating Models of Adversary Behavior

[Jun Zhuang]

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Call for Papers: Special Issue of Risk Analysis on Validating Models of Adversary Behavior
 
Area Editor: Seth Guikema (Johns Hopkins University; sguikema at jhu.edu)
Guest Editors: Jun Zhuang (University at Buffalo; jzhuang at buffalo.edu) and Vicki Bier (University of Wisconsin-Madison; bier at engr.wisc.edu)
 
Submission Deadline: December 31, 2013
 
Hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent on homeland security since September 11, 2001, and numerous models have been developed to study the strategic interactions between governments (defenders) and adversaries (e.g., attackers or terrorists). Some of these models were collected in a special issue of Risk Analysis on Advances in Terrorism Risk Analysis. However, few if any models have yet been validated using empirical data, limiting the application of those models in practice.

By bridging theoretical and empirical research on adversarial modeling, the objective of the special issue is to facilitate transitioning of the best existing models of adversary behavior into practice by assessing and demonstrating their validity and applicability to real-world problems. The special issue would also encourage synergy and communication between modelers, engineers, statisticians, game theorists, risk analysts, quantitative economists, and other social scientists engaged in terrorism modeling and research.

The issue will not only consider papers presented at the First conference on Validating Models of Adversary Behavior, Buffalo/Niagara Falls, NY, June 23-26, 2013 (http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/~jzhuang/Conference13/), but will also be open to the public for submission of papers relevant to the theme.

The deadline for submission of papers is December 31, 2013. Papers should be submitted at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/riskanalysis and should follow the Risk Analysis author submission guidelines.

All submissions will go through the standard review process of Risk Analysis. Submitting authors should indicate their desire to be considered for the special issue in the cover letter, completed during the submission process. Technical questions about submissions may be directed to Managing Editor Karen Lowrie (klowrie at rutgers.edu).

For more information about the special issue, please contact the editors above. 




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Jun Zhuang
Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
317 Bell Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260-2050, USA
Email: jzhuang at buffalo.edu
Phone: (716) 645 4707; Fax: (716) 645 3302
Web: http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/~jzhuang/

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