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Adversarial Risk Analysis for Urban Security Resource Allocation

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: Adversarial risk analysis (ARA) provides a framework to deal with risks originating from intentional actions of adversaries. We show how ARA may be used to allocate security resources in the protection of urban spaces. We take into account the spatial structure and consider both proactive and reactive measures, in that we aim at both trying to reduce criminality as well as recovering as best as possible from it, should it happen. We deal with the problem by deploying an ARA model over each spatial unit, coordinating the models through resource constraints, value aggregation, and proximity. We illustrate our approach with an example that uncovers several relevant policy issues.

Source: Risk Analysis

DOI: 10.1111/risa.12580

Authors: César Gil, David Rios Insua, Jesus Rios

Institutions: Generalitat de Catalunya, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, IBM (United States), IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center

Language: English

Topic: Facility Location and Emergency Management

Subfield: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Sustainable cities and communities, Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: green

Funders: Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, European Commission