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University of Virginia, Center for Risk Management of Engineering Systems

Location:

Charlottesville, VA

Contact

Kenneth Crowther
kgcrowther@virginia.edu

Homepage:

http://www.sys.virginia.edu/risk

Category (Academic organization or Consultancy):

Academic organization

Founding year:

1987

Number of employees

10

Research foci:

risk management, interdependency analysis, large-scale system analysis, homeland security, strategic preparedness, emergency resource management, transportation systems

Specific methods:

  • Cost-Benefit Analyses
  • Decision Conferencing
  • Decision trees
  • Dynamic programming
  • Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
  • Risk analyses
  • Probability assessment
  • Scenario analysis
  • Sensitivity analysis
  • Simulation

Areas:

  • R&D
  • Resource Allocation
  • Strategy

Prime sector of activity (public, private, both)

public

Industry:

  • Defense
  • Energy
  • Health
  • Homeland Security
  • Intelligence
  • Oil & Gas
  • Regional Government
  • Transportation
  • Utilities, Gas & Power
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