Handbook for Management of Threats

Future threats - creating a resilient society (Fytopoulos).- Managing environmental threats: integrating nature-related risks into investment decisions and the financial system (Kerckhoven).- Defense Critical Supply Chain Networks and Risk Management with the Inclusion of Labor: Dynamics and Quantification of Performance and the Ranking of Nodes and Links (Nagurney).- Facing Shortages - Practical Strategies to Improve Supply Chain Resilience (Kalaitzi).- Critical infrastructure detection during an evacuation with alternative fuel vehicles (Vogiatzis).- Risk assessment and identification methodology for the defense industry in times of crisis - decision making (Sanders).- Quantum Computers - The Need for a New Cryptographic Strategy (Britta).- On the way to coastal community resilience under tsunami threat (Pelinovsky).- Transnational Terrorism as a Threat - Cross border threats (Wright).- Resilience against Hybrid Threats - Empowered by emerging technologies - A study based on Russian invasion of Ukraine (Jasper).- Earthquakes - Management of threats, a holistic approach (Agapaki).- Efficiency Evaluation of Regions' Firefighting Measures by Data Envelopment Analysis (Demin).- Superposition Principle for Tornado Prediction (Aleskerov).- A Network-Based Risk-Averse Approach to Optimizing the Security of a Nuclear Facility (Butenko).- Post-Disaster Damage Assessment by using Drones in a Remote Communication Setting (Balcik).- Identifying critical nodes in a network (Arulselvan).- Machine learning-based rumor controlling (Du).- Strategic Communication as a mean for countering Hybrid Threats (Balomenos).- The Integrated approach in countering contemporary security and defence threats (Bellou).- European Union and NATO Cooperation in Hybrid Threats (Kostarakos).- Hybrid Threats: A European Response (Anagnostakis).- Integrated Development Environment using M&S and AI for Crisis Management E&T (Nikolov).- Civil-Military Cooperation for the countering of threats -

Konstantinos Balomenos is Political and International Relations scientist and Director General of General Directorate of National Defense Policy & International Relations, Hellenic Ministry of National Defense.
Antonios Fytopoulos graduated from the Hellenic Army Academy as an officer and pursued a military career, where he received numerous awards. In 2018 he received his diploma from the School of Chemical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens, where he graduated in the top 5% of his class. In 2017 he joined KU Leuven as a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemical Engineering. His Ph.D. project focused on population balance-based optimization of deracemization processes for pharmaceutical applications. He has participated and presented his research at several national and international conferences and coauthored articles in international peer-reviewed journals.
Panos M. Pardalosserves as Distinguished Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida (Emeritus). He is also an affiliated faculty member of the Computer and Information Science Department, the Hellenic Studies Center, and the Biomedical Engineering Program. Dr. Pardalos is a world leading expert in global and combinatorial optimization. His recent research interests include network design problems, optimization in telecommunications, e-commerce, data mining, biomedical applications, and massive computing. He has co-authored and co-edited more than 50 books, as well as publishing more than 600 journal articles and conference proceedings. Prof. Pardalos is a Fellow of AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and EUROPT. He is a Distinguished International Professor by the Chinese Minister of Education; Honorary Professor of Anhui University of Sciences and Technology, China; Elizabeth Wood Dunlevie Honors Term Professor; Honorary