An analysis of the impact of passenger profiling for transportation security

Operations Research

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1287-1302

  Cavusoglu, Huseyin ^a   Koh, Byungwan ^a   Raghunathan, Srinivasan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AIRLINE PASSENGERS; COMPUTER ASSISTED PASSENGER PRESCREENING SYSTEMS; PASSENGER PROFILING; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; SCREENING DEVICES; SCREENING SYSTEM; SECURITY ARCHITECTURE; SOCIAL WELFARE; TRANSPORTATION SECURITY; TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 77958482604     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1090.0793     Document Type: Article

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