Port-of-entry inspection: Sensor deployment policy optimization

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 265-276

  Elsayed, Elsayed A ^a   Young, Christina M ^a   Xie, Minge ^b   Zhang, Hao ^a,c   Zhu, Yada ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Strategic Analytics Fidelity National Information Services Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Container inspection; Gamma rays; Large scale systems; Network reliability; Probability; Probability of false accept; Probability of false reject; Receiver operating characteristic curve; Sensor threshold levels; Sequences

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL AGENTS; BUDGET CONSTRAINTS; CONTAINER INSPECTION; INSPECTION SYSTEMS; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; MISCLASSIFICATION ERRORS; NETWORK RELIABILITY; NUCLEAR MATERIALS; OPTIMIZATION APPROACHES; OPTIMUM THRESHOLDS; OVERALL COSTS; POLICY OPTIMIZATIONS; PORTS OF ENTRIES; POWER LEVELS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVE; RISK CONSTRAINTS; SENSOR ARRANGEMENTS; SENSOR DEPLOYMENTS; SEQUENCES; SPECIFIC SEQUENCES; TOTAL COSTS; X-RAY MACHINES;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BUDGET CONTROL; CONTAINERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; GAMMA RAYS; INSPECTION; INSPECTION EQUIPMENT; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; STARS; X RAY CAMERAS;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 64049114876     PISSN: 15455955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2008.2003348     Document Type: Article

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