Browsing by Subject "branch and price, integer programming, homeland security, port and waterway surveillance, integer programming, knapsack problem, lifting"
Item Strategic Surveillance System Design for Ports and Waterways(2010-07-14) Cimren, Elif I.The purpose of this dissertation is to synthesize a methodology to prescribe a strategic design of a surveillance system to provide the required level of surveillance for ports and waterways. The method of approach to this problem is to formulate a linear integer programming model to prescribe a strategic surveillance system design (SSD) for ports or waterways, to devise branch-and-price decomposition (B