Overview
- Written by a leading authority in the field
- Shows practitioners how Quantitative Risk Analysis can improve risk management decisions and policies
- Demonstrates applications in complex and uncertain biological, engineering, and social systems
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science (ISOR, volume 129)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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PART 1 INTRODUCTION TO RISK ANALYSIS
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PART 2 AVOIDING BAD RISK ANALYSIS
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PART 3 PRINCIPLES FOR DOING BETTER
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PART 4 APPLICATIONS AND EXTENSIONS
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About this book
In Risk Analysis of Complex and Uncertain Systems acknowledged risk authority Tony Cox shows all risk practitioners how Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) can be used to improve risk management decisions and policies. It develops and illustrates QRA methods for complex and uncertain biological, engineering, and social systems – systems that have behaviors that are just too complex to be modeled accurately in detail with high confidence – and shows how they can be applied to applications including assessing and managing risks from chemical carcinogens, antibiotic resistance, mad cow disease, terrorist attacks, and accidental or deliberate failures in telecommunications network infrastructure. This book was written for a broad range of practitioners, including decision risk analysts, operations researchers and management scientists, quantitative policy analysts, economists, health and safety risk assessors, engineers, and modelers.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“The new results of this book include many real life applications especially in health management. … More applications to the specialists are given throughout the book. The book is written for practitioners but I think it is quite useful for anyone interested in risk analysis and assessment. … Concluding, this is one of the best books on quantitative risk assessment. I strongly recommended it to anyone interested in reducing risk in this highly volatile world.” (E. Ahmed, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1168, 2009)
“The book is devoted to the development of quantitative risk assessment (QRA) for complex and uncertain biological, engineering, and social systems. … This book is written for practitioners using rational quantitative risk analysis in various areas. The methods and strategies included are good enough to help one make effective risk management decisions.” (Krzysztof Szajowski, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2012 c)
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Risk Analysis of Complex and Uncertain Systems
Authors: Louis Anthony Cox
Series Title: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-89014-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-89013-5Published: 15 May 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-4703-1Published: 08 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-89014-2Published: 12 June 2009
Series ISSN: 0884-8289
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7934
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 436
Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Environmental Health, Math. Appl. in Environmental Science, Social Policy, Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes, Mathematical and Computational Biology
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