From the Editors: Probability Approximations, Anti-Terrorism Strategy, and Bull's-Eye Display for Performance Feedback

Rakesh K. Sarin () and L. Robin Keller ()
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Rakesh K. Sarin: Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095
L. Robin Keller: The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697

Decision Analysis, 2013, vol. 10, issue 1, 1-5

Abstract: This “From the Editors” column is coauthored by new Editor-in-Chief Rakesh K. Sarin and former Editor-in-Chief L. Robin Keller. Our first two articles are on techniques for approximating probability distributions. The first article, by Robert K. Hammond and J. Eric Bickel is on “Reexamining Discrete Approximations to Continuous Distributions.” Next, Luis V. Montiel and J. Eric Bickel present a method for “Approximating Joint Probability Distributions Given Partial Information.” The next two articles present methods for analyzing terrorist threats or measures for terrorist protection. Kevin Ni, Daniel Faissol, Thomas Edmunds, and Richard Wheeler present a new method for “Exploitation of Ambiguous Cues to Infer Terrorist Activity.” The next article is on “Passenger Profiling and Screening for Aviation Security in the Presence of Strategic Attackers” by Huseyin Cavusoglu, Young Kwark, Bin Mai, and Srinivasan Raghunathan. Our final paper is on “WholeSoldier Performance Appraisal to Support Mentoring and Personnel Decisions,” by Robert A. Dees, Scott T. Nestler, and Robert Kewley.

Keywords: decision analysis; airport security; ambiguous information; analytic center; applications; military; Bayesian analysis; configuration; decision support; dynamic programming; event tree; faking; incomplete information; inspection; maximum entropy; mentoring; national security; nuclear counter-terrorism; passenger profiling; Pearson distribution; performance appraisal; personnel decisions; probabilistic dependence; probability discretization; screening devices; sequential exploration; stochastic optimization; subjective probability; Swanson-Megill; value-focused thinking; editorial (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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