Operations Research Approaches For Disaster Recovery Planning

摘要

A disaster recovery plan (DRP) is a system for internal control and security that focuses on maintaining continuity or quick restoration of service for critical organizational processes when there are operational failures due to disasters. In recent years various factors led to increasing interest in the development, testing, and maintenance of DRPs. While much attention has been paid to DRPs in the practitioner community, the subject has received scant attention in the operations research/management science/information systems research literature. A major objective of this special issue is that it will serve as an important early step in the effort of developing a body of formal knowledge on the DRP process that would be accessible and valuable to managers, researchers, students, practitioners, and vendors.