Nuclear threat detection with mobile distributed sensor networks

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 45-63

  Hochbaum, Dorit S ^a   Fishbain, Barak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Counter terrorism; Discrete event simulation; Network flow; Nuclear threat detection; Parametric cut

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960284481     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-009-0643-z     Document Type: Article

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