Security

• Risk analysis
• Reliability analysis 
• Emergency planning and response
• Decision analysis
• Systems analysis
• Uncertainty analysis
• Game theory
• Operations research

The Center for Human Performance and Risk Analysis is coordinating risk analysis at the first national research center funded by the Department of Homeland Security: the Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism at the University of Southern California (USC).

"Professor uses math, science to predict terrorist targets", Usa Today, February 5, 2006.

"UW Professor Helps Analyze Terror Risks\ Vicki Bier Is A Key Researcher In A Project Aimed At Developing Scientifically Rigorous Techniques To Protect Against Terror", Wisconsin State Journal, February 5, 2006.

"Engineering Homeland Security Strategies", National Academy of Engineering, February 17, 2006.

"Prioritizing terror targets moves to front burner", Homeland Protection Professional, Pg 15 September 2005.

"UW-Madison Researchers Investigate Ways to Thwart Terrorism," Perspective, Vol. 30, No. 2, Winter 2004.

Homeland Security Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events

• Sponsor: Department of Homeland Security
• Principal Investigator: Detlof von Winterfeldt, University of Southern California.
• Affiliated Researchers: Vicki Bier, Lawrence Bank, Randolph Hall, Larry Samuelson, Detlof von Winterfeldt, Rae Zimmerman
• Sample Work Products: Transmission Systems | Protecting airlines against manpads

Models of Interdependent Security in Supply Chains for Food

• Sponsor: Department of Homeland Security
• Affiliated Researchers: Vicki Bier, Lorna Zach, William Nganje (North Dakota State University)

Optimal and Near- Optimal Resource Allocation for Transportation Infrastructure Protection

• Sponsor: Midwest Regional University Transportation Center
• Principal Investigator: Vicki M. Bier, University of Wisconsin- Madison
• Sample Work Product: UW Workshop Examines Security Research Needs

Applying Risk and Decision Analysis to Animal Health and Security

• Sponsor: Department of Homeland Security
• Affiliated Researchers: Vicki Bier, Lorna Zach, Najmedin Meshkati, Michael Ward, Michael Orosz, Terry Benzel
• Sample Work Product: Applying Risk and Decision Analysis to Food and Animal Health and Security

Optimal and Near-Optimal Resource Allocation for Information Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection

• Sponsor: National Science Foundation
• Principal Investigator: Vicki M. Bier, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Modeling and Simulation Environment for Critical Infrastructure Protection

• Sponsor: U.S. Army
• Principal Investigator: Stephen M. Robinson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Affiliated Researchers: Mostafa Bassiouni, Vicki Bier, Jagdish Chandra, Ratan Guha, Thomas Kurtz, Daniel Schwartz, Nozer Singpurwalla, Sara Stoecklin, and Mary Vernon
• Sample work: "Protection of Simple Series and Parallel Systems with Components of Different Values", Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Vol. 87, Issue 3, March 2005, pp. 315-323. By Vicki M. Bier, Aniruddha Nagaraja and Vinod Abhichandani.

Building-Vulnerability Science and Technology. Presented by Lawrence Bank, February, 2003.

Risk Assessment of Extreme Events. Columbia-Wharton/Penn Roundtable on "Risk Management Strategies in an Uncertain World," Palisades, New York, April 12-13, 2002.

Making the Nation Safer: The Role of Science and Technology in Countering Terrorism. National Academies Press, 2002.

The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace. United States, Office of the White House, 2003.

Risk Management Guidance for Health, Safety and Environmental Security Under Extraordinary Incidents. Report prepared by the ASHRAE Presidential Study Group on Health and Safety Under Extraordinary Incidents, 2002.

A Guide to Highway Vulnerability Assessment for Critical Asset Identification and Protection. Prepared by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) for the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Official Security Task Force, 2002.

A Guide to Updating Highway Emergency Response Plans for Terrorist Incidents. Prepared by Parsons Brinckerhoff, PB Farradyne for the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials' Security Task Force, 2002.

Effects of Catastrophic Events on Transportation System Management and Operations (html) (pdf). Prepared by U.S. Department of Transportation John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, 2003.

The Physical Protection of Critical Infrastructures and Key Assets. United States, Office of the White House, 2003.

A Preliminary Benefit/Cost Framework for Counterterrorism Public Expenditures. Rand Corporation, 2003.

Fact sheet: an overview of America's security since 9/11. United States, Department of Homeland Security, September 7, 2004.