Strategic Surveillance System Design for Ports and Waterways

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2010-07-14

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Cimren, Elif I.

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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

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branch and price, integer programming, homeland security, port and waterway surveillance, integer programming, knapsack problem, lifting

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