Traditional policy analysis approaches are characterized by a focus on system modeling and choosing among policy alternatives. While successful in many cases, this approach has been increasingly criticized for being technocratic and ignoring the behavioral and political dimensions of most policy...

Using Operations Research Methods for Homeland Security Problems -- Operations Research and Homeland Security: Overview and Case Study of Pandemic Influenza -- Deployed Security Games for Patrol Planning -- Interdiction Models and Applications -- Time Discrepant Shipments in Manifest Data --...

A Framework for Business Anayltics -- Analytics Domain Context -- Decision Framing: Defining the Decision Need -- Decision Modeling -- Decision Making -- Decision Execution -- Business Intelligence -- Data Stewardship: Can We Use the Data? -- Making Organizations Smarter -- Building the...

Why Do We Simulate? -- Simulation Programming: Quick Start -- Examples -- Simulation Programming with VBASim -- Two Views of Simulation -- Simulation Input -- Simulation Output -- Experiment Design and Analysis -- Simulation for Research -- VBASim

Causality for Risk Analysts: Improving Our Understanding of How the World Works -- Improving Individual Risk Management Decisions: Learning from Experience and Coping with Model Uncertainty -- Improving Community Risk Management: Managing Disaster Risks -- Improving Organizational Risk...

Risk: The Convergence -- Risk Management Everywhere -- Probability Elements: An Applied Refresher -- Multivariate Probability Distributions: Applications and Risk Models -- Temporal Risk Processes -- Risk Measurement -- Risk Valuation -- Risk Economics and the Extended CCAPM -- Risk Pricing...

Improving Access to Healthcare: Models of Adaptive Behavior -- Queueing Models for Healthcare Operations -- Applications of Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation to Healthcare Operations Management -- Optimization in Healthcare Delivery Modeling: Methods and Applications -- Operating Room Planning...

Introduction -- Manufacturing and Re-manufacturing Systems -- A Hidden Markov Model for Customer Classification -- Markov Decision Processes for Customer Lifetime Value -- Higher-order Markov Chains -- Multivariate Markov Chains -- Hidden Markov Chains

Considerations for Developing Applied Health Policy Models: The Example of HIV Treatment Expansion in Resource-Limited Settings -- Cost-effectiveness Analysis Using Registry and Administrative Data -- Public Health Modeling at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- OR in Public...