On Minimizing the Number of Critical Decision Perimeters at Which Threats to Protected Facilities Must Be Identified to Allow Effective Interdiction

摘要

This paper proposes to integrate surveillance and interdiction by minimizing the number of critical decision perimeters at which threats must be identified to allow interdiction before they can inflict damage to intended targets. Such a solution assures security and minimizes the workload required for humans to analyze the sensor-provided information needed to identify threats since decisions would have to be made at the minimal number of perimeters. The research objectives of this paper are to structure this problem, formulate an appropriate model, conduct a sensitivity analysis to understand how the number of critical decision perimeters depends upon key parameters that describe the system, and demonstrate model application to a real-world case.