The nested event tree model with application to combating terrorism

INFORMS Journal on Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 620-634

  Lunday, Brian J ^a   Sherali, Hanif D ^a   Glickman, Theodore S ^b  

^a State University   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Branch and bound; Combating terrorism; Factorable programs; Global optimization; Outer approximation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649335959     PISSN: 10919856     EISSN: 15265528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/ijoc.1100.0377     Document Type: Article

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