Spatial queueing analysis of an interdiction system to protect cities from a nuclear terrorist attack

Operations Research

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 247-254

  Atkinson, Michael P ^a   Wein, Lawrence M ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Government: defense; Queues: approximations

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSION; RADIOLOGICAL WEAPONS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSORS;

BOMBS (ORDNANCE);

EID: 41549126283     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1070.0490     Document Type: Article

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