Operations Research Department
Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, California 93943

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(831) 656-1814
DSN: 756-1814
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Email: dlalders@nps.edu

DAVID L. ALDERSON
Assistant Professor of Operations Research
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2003

Research Interests

• Modeling, analysis, and management of the Internet and other network-centric infrastructures
• Optimization-based reverse engineering of complex network systems
• Attacker-Defender Models for Critical Infrastructure Systems
• Hastily Formed Networks and Network Operation, particularly related to Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HA/DR)

Teaching Interests

• Computational methods for Operations Research
• A realistic view of Complex Systems/Network Science

What's New

• D. L. Alderson and J. C. Doyle. Contrasting Views of Complexity and Their Implications for Network-Centric Infrastructures IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and Humans 40(4): 839-852, July 2010.
• Danger: Infrastructure Under Attack (Science of Better Podcast with David Alderson)
• NPS Center for Infrastructure Defense announced in NPS Research Quarterly
• NPS Cyber Summit, 29 October 2009
• "In Search of the Real Network Science: An Interview with David Alderson"
  ACM Ubiquity Issue 8 (August 4 - 10, 2009).
• W. Willinger, D. Alderson, and J.C. Doyle. Mathematics and the Internet: A source of enormous confusion and great potential, Notices of the American Mathematical Society 56(5):286-299, May 2009.
• D. Alderson. Catching the “Network Science” Bug: Insight and Opportunity for the Operations Researcher. Operations Research 56, pp. 1047-1065, 2008.