Collaborative Research: Aviation Access Control Security Systems

这笔赠款提供资金，以创建一个数学框架，以设计有效的航空安全系统战略。航空安全保护至关重要的国家利益，也保护乘客和飞机。航空安全系统的关键组成部分包括行李和乘客安检设备和操作。该项目的目标是确定：(1)如何衡量航空安全系统的性能；(2)在设计此类系统时应在何处部署航空安全技术设备；(3)如何在部署后以最佳方式操作此类设备；以及(4)如何量化和优化部署和安全操作策略的效果。该方法将使用离散优化模型，如背包问题、复杂性分析和为模型的难处理实例开发的启发式方法，进行必要的分析并获得预期的结果。本研究的结果将提供一种系统的方法来比较和评估不同类型的航空安全系统战略，包括新的和现有的航空安全技术。这种办法还有可能被用来设计和实施新的航空安全系统战略，鉴于目前或将来可能提供的安全资源和技术，这些战略能够提高可达到的安全水平。此外，这项研究的结果可以用来量化不同类型航空安全技术的新投资的价值，以确定它们对加强全国机场航空安全的潜在影响。除了航空安全，这种方法还可以应用于其他筛查环境，如计算机安全系统筛查未经授权的用户和食品安全系统筛查有毒细菌水平。

This grant provides funding to create a mathematical framework to design effective aviation security system strategies. Aviation security protects vital national interests, as well as passengers and aircraft. Key components of an aviation security system include baggage and passenger screening devices and operations. The goals of this project are to determine: (1) how to measure the performance of aviation security systems, (2) where to deploy aviation security technology devices when designing such systems, (3) how to operate such devices optimally after they are deployed, and (4) how to quantify and optimize the resulting effectiveness of deployment and security operation strategies. The methodology will use discrete optimization models such as the knapsack problem, complexity analysis, and heuristics developed for intractable instances of the models to conduct the necessary analysis and to obtain the desired results.The results of this research will provide a systematic approach to compare and evaluate different types of aviation security system strategies that incorporate both new and existing aviation security technologies. This approach also has the potential to be used to design and implement new aviation security system strategies capable of enhancing the level of security attainable given the security resources and technologies that are currently available or may be available in the future. Moreover, the results of this research can be used to quantify the value of new investments in different types of aviation security technologies, to determine their potential impact on enhancing aviation security at airports within the nation. Beyond aviation security, this approach may also be applied to other screening environments, such as computer security systems screening for unauthorized users and food safety systems screening for toxic levels of bacteria.