Scheduling crackdowns on illicit drug markets

Scheduling crackdowns on illicit drug markets

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Article ID: iaor19982282
Country: Netherlands
Volume: 88
Issue: 2
Start Page Number: 231
End Page Number: 250
Publication Date: Jan 1996
Journal: European Journal of Operational Research
Authors: , , ,
Keywords: scheduling
Abstract:

This paper presents an analytical approach for scheduling crackdowns on street-corner drug markets. The crackdown scheduling problem is shown to be NP-complete. We then provide efficient optimal algorithms for several special cases and approximation algorithms for the general case. These results show that the optimal strategy is to give priority to markets that take longer to bring down and which require low levels of post-crackdown maintenance. The results are then extended to incorporate dealer displacement between drug markets.

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