Cost-effectiveness of Investments in Defense of Critical Infrastructure

Abstract

Cost effectiveness of defensive investments has a major effect on the optimal resource allocation. When investment is not highly cost effective: all or most of the budget should go to most attractive target(s). As the cost effectiveness increases: smaller targets get more funding but the most attractive target still gets a larger share. Different measures of attractiveness yield different optimal budget allocations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA535448

Entities

People

  • Taher Jamshidi
  • Vicki M. Bier

Organizations

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Budgets
  • Business Administration
  • Cost Effectiveness
  • Costs
  • Data Sets
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Economic Analysis
  • Economic Impact
  • Engineering
  • Governments
  • Infrastructure
  • Investments
  • Military Operations
  • Public Health
  • Risk
  • Security
  • Systems Engineering

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