From the Editors---Games and Decisions in Reliability and Risk

Jason R. W. Merrick (), Fabrizio Ruggeri (), Refik Soyer () and L. Robin Keller ()
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Jason R. W. Merrick: Statistical Sciences and Operations Research, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virgina 23284
Fabrizio Ruggeri: CNR IMATI, I-20133 Milano, Italy
Refik Soyer: Department of Decision Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052
L. Robin Keller: University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697

Decision Analysis, 2012, vol. 9, issue 2, 81-85

Abstract: The objective of this special issue is to introduce a new theme, the use of game and decision theory in reliability modeling and risk analysis, which was the focus of the First Symposium on Games and Decisions in Reliability and Risk (GDRR) held at the George Washington University on May 27--28, 2009. The issue considered papers presented at the Second Symposium on GDRR ( http://www.mi.imati.cnr.it/conferences/gdrr11.html ), held at the Hotel Villa Carlotta, Belgirate (VB), Lake Maggiore, Italy, on May 19--21, 2011, and also was open to the public for submission of papers relevant to the theme. The contributors to the special issue include Sevillano, Rios Insua, and Rios; Delquié; Foschi and Spizzichino; French; Bhattacharjya and Deleris; Bhattacharjya and Shachter; Lejeune; Cheung and Zhuang; Smith and Dodd; Sri Bhashyam and Montibeller; and Paté-Cornell.

Keywords: decision analysis; adversarial risk analysis; aggregation of expert judgment; ageing; airline industry; analytics; applications; security; asymmetry; Bayesian models; Bayes net; burn-in; coal mining; competition between companies; counterterrorism; decision circuit; decision making; decision tree; defender--attacker models; disaster; enhanced indexation expected utility; failure probability; fault tree circuit; formulation; game analysis; game theory; Gini's mean difference; influence diagram; meta-analysis; mixed strategy; multiattribute utility theory; nuclear power; national security; nuclear proliferation; oil spill; piracy; practice; principal--agent model; public participation; pure strategy; regulation; reliability; reliability diagnosis; risk; risk analysis; risk measures; sensitivity analysis; state-dependent priorities; stochastic optimization; stochastic orderings; textbook problem; terrorism; terrorist threats; utility functions; value of information; value models; editorial (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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