The impact of joint responses of devices in an airport security system

Risk Analysis

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 298-311

  Nie, Xiaofeng ^a   Batta, Rajan ^a   Drury, Colin G ^a   Lin, Li ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Airport security; Classification theory; Joint device responses; Passenger grouping strategies

Indexed keywords

AIRPORT SECURITY; CLASSIFICATION THEORY; EXPECTED COST OF MISCLASSIFICATION; FALSE ALARM PROBABILITIES; FALSE ALARMS; ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES; INSPECTION DEVICES; JOINT DEVICE RESPONSES; JOINT RESPONSE; KEY MODELS; MISCLASSIFICATION PROBABILITIES; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS; OPERATED SYSTEMS; PASSENGER GROUPING STRATEGIES; SIMULATION-BASED METHODS; USE CONCEPTS;

AIRPORTS; ALARM SYSTEMS; ERRORS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

PROBABILITY;

AIRPORT; CLASSIFICATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SECURITY THREAT; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

AIRPORT; AIRPORT SECURITY SYSTEM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DEVICE; RISK MANAGEMENT; SAFETY; SCREENING; STAFF TRAINING; TERRORISM;

EID: 58849120173     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2008.01147.x     Document Type: Article

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