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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Interdiction"”.
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Optimized border interdiction
A feature of many conflicts is the presence of a border that separates an area of on-going military operations from an area that the enemy can use permissively. This thesis considers analytic techniques for planning military operations designed to interdict enemy forces crossing the border. …
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OPTIMISATION AND INTERDICTION PROBLEMS FOR NETWORK SAFETY
… Next, we introduce a family of Binary Interdiction Problems, referred to as Hard Interdiction Problems, involving two agents: the attacker, who acts as the leader, and the defender, who acts as the follower. The defender solves an optimisation problem after the attacker has interdicted …
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Coordinated guidance strategy for multiple USVs during maritime interdiction operations
… solution contributing to successful maritime interdiction missions. The strategy would be to surround the target to restrict its further maneuver. In this case, a coordinated control of the intercept time and terminal angle attitude become the two main characteristics of the intercept mission. …
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A new perspective for creating geographic products for drug interdiction
… intelligence data which would be assets in drug interdiction. The approach described in this paper is significant in that it addresses the four primary phases of drug interdiction: cultivation, processing, smuggling, and distribution. The digital data sets and computer technologies required to …
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Hard Instances, Improved Algorithms and New Interdiction Models for Robust Optimization
Robust combinatorial optimization seeks solutions that remain effective across all possible realizations of an uncertainty set, making the choice of this set a crucial factor in both the complexity and practical applicability of robust models. A key challenge in this field is striking a balance …
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Distributionally robust solution schemes for two-stage optimization and interdiction problems under uncertainty
… guarantees for two-stage optimization and interdiction problems. We utilize the distributionally robust optimization scheme to develop the solution framework, which is an emerging scheme in optimization under uncertainty. In addition, solution algorithms are designed for optimization …
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Algorithms for Distributionally Risk-Receptive and Robust Stochastic Integer Programs and Interdiction Problems
… with a particular focus on adversarial games and interdiction problems. We introduce models within both distributionally risk-receptive (DRR) and distributionally robust optimization (DRO) frameworks, allowing for an adjustment of decision-maker's risk attitudes in adversarial settings. A key …
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Resource Allocation on Networks: Nested Event Tree Optimization, Network Interdiction, and Game Theoretic Methods
… For this application, we examine the network interdiction problem of minimizing the maximum probability of evasion by an entity traversing a network from a given source to a designated terminus, while incorporating novel forms of superadditive synergy between resources applied to arcs in the …
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DECENTRALIZED ALGORITHMS FOR NASH EQUILIBRIUM PROBLEMS – APPLICATIONS TO MULTI-AGENT NETWORK INTERDICTION GAMES AND BEYOND
Nash equilibrium problems (NEPs) have gained popularity in recent years in the engineering community due to their ready applicability to a wide variety of practical problems ranging from communication network design to power market analysis. There are strong links between the tools used to analyze …
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The evolution of federal drug enforcement and the United States Coast Guard's interdiction mission : a case study
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1989.
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Nuclear Smuggling in a Terrorist Midget Submarine: Impeding the Operation
… will likely look for a delivery vehicle to elude interdiction. Terrorists may believe that, given the large area the Coast Guard patrols, an SSM has a good chance of avoiding sensors and thereby interdiction. Likewise, terrorists may imagine that, even if an SSM is picked up by sensors, sensor …
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Considerations in the development of a survivability/lethality tradeoff submodel for advanced tactical aircraft conceptual design
… superiority, fleet defense and attack/interdiction. The baseline aircraft for air superiority and fleet defense is the Tomcat Fighter, F-14 and for attack/interdiction it is Intruder, A-6. Several measures of effectiveness are presented to evaluate the superiority or inferiority of the …
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Algorithms for Networks With Uncertainty
… graph is planar.</p><p>\item \textbf{Symmetric Interdiction:} We study the symmetric matching interdiction problem. This problem can be simply stated as follows: find a matching whose removal minimizes the size of the maximum matching in the remaining graph. We show that this problem is …
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Models and Methodologies to Address Emerging Needs in Network and Supply Chain Optimization
… approach for solving a dynamic bi-level network interdiction problem (NIP) in which interdiction activities must be scheduled in order to minimize the cumulative maximum flow over a finite time horizon. A logic-based decomposition (LBD) approach is proposed that utilizes constraint programming to …
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The guns-for-drugs trade: implications for U.S. foreign policy
… neglecting the problem altogether, increasing interdiction efforts, passing stricter laws and harsher penalties, increasing intergovernmental cooperation and bolstering cooperation among law enforcement agencies, both foreign and domestic. In conclusion, the thesis proposes that any solution …
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What have we learned from the War on Drugs? an assessment of Mexico's counternarcotics strategy
… of the issue, emphasizing eradication, interdiction, and incarceration and has pressured the government of Mexico to employ the same strategy at every opportunity. Over the course of time, the U.S. and Mexican governments pursued the strategy dictated by Washington to relatively little …
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Strategic and analytics-driven inspection operations for critical infrastructure resilience
… detecting adversarial failures; (ii) Strategic interdiction of malicious network flows; (iii) Analytics-driven inspection for localizing post-disaster failures.
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Refugee and asylum policy in the United States : Cubans and Haitians
… and outside the U.S. on the grounds that the interdiction program contradicts national and international prohibitions against refoulement, and selectively discriminates against Haitians
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