Designing optimal aviation baggage screening strategies using simulated annealing

Designing optimal aviation baggage screening strategies using simulated annealing

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Article ID: iaor2005668
Country: United Kingdom
Volume: 31
Issue: 10
Start Page Number: 1753
End Page Number: 1767
Publication Date: Sep 2004
Journal: Computers and Operations Research
Authors: , ,
Keywords: search, testing, heuristics, optimization: simulated annealing
Abstract:

Terrorist activities are a critical threat to domestic aviation security. Current aviation security models created to address this threat are descriptive rather than prescriptive; they evaluate a given baggage screening strategy rather than identify optimal baggage screening strategies. Moreover, these models only incorporate costs associated with purchasing and operating baggage screening security devices. This research introduces a comprehensive cost function that not only includes direct costs associated with the purchase and operation of baggage screening security devices, but also includes indirect costs associated with device errors. A methodology is presented to determine the best selection of baggage screening security devices that minimizes the expected annual total cost of a baggage screening strategy. Computational experiments with this methodology are presented.

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