dc.contributor.author | Kaplan, Edward H. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-04T14:11:22Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-04-04T14:11:22Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-03-28 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/54701 | |
dc.description | Presented on March 28, 2016 at 3:00 p.m. in the Cherry Logan Emerson Lecture Theater in the MSE Building. | en_US |
dc.description | Edward H. Kaplan is the William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Operations Research, Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Public Health at Yale University. Dr. Kaplan’s current research focuses on the application of operations research to problems in counterterrorism and homeland security. | |
dc.description | Runtime: 62:41 minutes | |
dc.description.abstract | Policy Modeling refers to the application of operations research, statistics, and other quantitative methods to model policy problems. Recognizing that analyses of all sorts often exhibit diminishing returns in insight to effort, the hope is to capture key features of various policy issues with relatively simple “first-strike” models. Problem selection and formulation thus compete with the mathematics of solution methods in determining successful
applications: where do good problems come from? how can analysts tell if a particular issue is worth pursuing? In addressing these questions, I will review some personal adventures in policy modeling selected from public housing, HIV/AIDS prevention, bioterror preparedness, suicide bombings and counterterrorism, in vitro fertilization, predicting presidential elections, and sports. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 62:41 minutes | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | ISyE Distinguished Scholarship Lecture | en_US |
dc.subject | Counterterrorism | en_US |
dc.subject | Operations research | en_US |
dc.subject | Policy modelling | en_US |
dc.subject | Public health | en_US |
dc.subject | Public housing | en_US |
dc.title | Adventures in Policy Modeling! | en_US |
dc.type | Lecture | en_US |
dc.type | Video | en_US |
dc.contributor.corporatename | Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Industrial and Systems Engineering | en_US |
dc.contributor.corporatename | Yale Universtiy. School of Engineering and Applied Science | en_US |
dc.embargo.terms | null | en_US |