ARI-SA: Multi-layered system level screening for port security

0735735 McLayThe项目的目的是探索如何系统的方法可以用来设计和分析系统检测核材料在我们的国家？的港口。本研究使用离散优化和决策分析模型来设计用于检测核武器和核材料的多层次、基于风险的港口安全系统。该项目将开发离散优化，以调查基于风险的港口和海上安全系统;对船只进行核威胁风险评估的决策分析模型;通过计算研究和专家知识对这些模型进行经验评估和评价的算法和分析;探索这些模型之间的关系，以提供多层次，系统级港口和海上安全，同时检测核材料，并利用现有和未来的技术和传感器网络，以具有成本效益的方式提供微创、高通量的筛查系统。拟议研究的更广泛影响包括下一代港口和海上安全系统范例的发展，这将推动我们国家实现安全的边界？的港口，鉴于现有的和未来的筛选技术。

0735735McLayThe objective of this project is to explore how a systems approach can be used to design and analyze systems for detecting nuclear material at our nation?s ports. This research uses discrete optimization and decision analysis models to design multi-layered, risk-based, port security systems for detecting nuclear weapons and materials. This project will develop discrete optimization to investigate risk-based port and maritime security systems; a decision analysis model to perform nuclear threat risk assessments on vessels; algorithms and heuristics to empirically assess and evaluate these models through a computational study and expert knowledge; explores the relationships between such models in order to provide multi-layered, system level port and maritime security that simultaneously detect nuclear material and cost-effectively deliver minimally invasive, high throughput screening systems using existing and future technologies and sensor networks. The broader impacts of the proposed research include the development of next-generation port and maritime security system paradigms that will push forward the boundary of achievable security at our nation?s ports, given existing and future screening technologies.