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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"aviation security"”.
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Risk Assessment of Aviation Security and Evaluation of Aviation Security Policies
… airplanes, airports, aircrew, and employees, aviation industry is a large sector that is very vulnerable to attacks, whether it is from terrorists or criminals. Aviation history is fraught with examples of airport bombings, hijackings, and sabotage terrorist attacks. The most destructive of …
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Designing Aviation Security Systems: Theory and Practice
Next-generation aviation security systems need not merely be makeshift political solutions for mending complex problems; they can be the result of modeling, analysis, and planning. This dissertation provides a systematic approach for designing and analyzing aviation security systems, which provides …
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An Operations Research approach to aviation security
… the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, aviation security policy has remained a focus of national attention. We develop mathematical models to address some prominent problems in aviation security. We explore first whether securing aviation deserves priority over other potential targets. …
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Optimizing Aviation Security Architectures using the SAFE Model
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) wishes to minimize the overall operational costs of their aviation security detection systems. These systems consist of a collection of security devices. The objective of this research is to develop an algorithm to design the optimal system of devices. The …
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Stochastic Sequential Resource Allocation and Passenger Assignment in Aviation Security Systems
Next-generation aviation security systems need not merely be makeshift political solutions for mending complex problems; they can be the result of modeling, analysis, and planning. This dissertation pro-actively aims to address potential areas of concern that are likely to draw the attention in the …
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Optimality, Uncertainty, and Performance of Passenger Screening in Aviation Security Systems
The future direction of aviation security system design involves creating a system of systems with layers of protection, and exhibits flexibility to quickly protect against new threats. This dissertation provides methodologies that increase security and passenger throughput by efficiently and …
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A Stochastic Approach to Modeling Aviation Security Problems Using the KNAPSACK Problem
… and users of multiple-device, access control security systems are challenged by the false alarm, false clear tradeoff. Given a particular access control security system, and a prespecified false clear standard, there is an optimal (minimal) false alarm rate that can be achieved. The objective …
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Effectiveness of the 2010 Beijing Convention and Protocol in Addressing Aviation Security Threats
… of other new and emerging threats to civil aviation, the international community has been faced with the harsh reality in the field of aviation security, hence, several legal attempts were made to address such aviation threats. Consequently, the International Civil Aviation Organization …
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“Effectiveness of the 2010 Beijing Convention and Protocol in Addressing Aviation Security Threats
… of other new and emerging threats to civil aviation, the international community has been faced with the harsh reality in the field of aviation security, hence, several legal attempts were made to address such aviation threats. Consequently, the International Civil Aviation Organization …
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The Expansion of Counter-terrorism in the EU Post-9/11: The Development of EU Aviation Security
… of its counter-terrorism remit to include aviation security. The specific focus of the PhD is to examine the cause and effects of this development by considering the first decade of this new political competence. In doing so it fills a conspicuous gap in the literature – the absence of …
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An Exploratory Analysis of the Psychological Dimensions of Airline Security and Correlates of Perceived Terrorism Threats: A Study of Active American Airlines Pilots.
… in a myriad of new policies designed to enhance aviation security. These policies ostensibly considered the origins of the exact threat facing the United States. Missing, however, were the inputs from rank and file pilots of the airlines that policy makers were attempting to protect. This …
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Application of signal detection theory to the recognition of objects in colour-encoded x-ray images
Aviation security personnel encounter problems when interpreting x-ray images of hand luggage. This research seeks to determine whether the performance of the human operator can be improved, in terms of both reliability and accuracy, through the employment of a novel multiple-view x-ray imaging …
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Variations of online bipartite matching
… online investment, kidney transplantation, aviation security passenger screening, and enhanced Ebola entry screening. However, the original version of the problem is too simplistic to cover many real-world applications. Therefore it is common to consider variations of the problem that more …
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Securitizing Air Spaces: How the Pan Am 103 Bombing Led to a New Extraterritorial Aviation Regime
The introduction of security in airspace management presented an interesting problem as the United States inserted itself as the new arbiter of international aviation security. By its very nature, aviation security requires strict policing standards on both ends of travel, at both the departure and …
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… has been focused on developing technologies for aviation security. Security inspectors have considerable latitude to wave passengers into additional screening, and pat-downs are extensive and thorough. Immigrants, individuals from minority groups, and persons from specific ethnicities are …
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Fragmentation of DHS public corruption investigations: options to leverage overlapping jurisdiction and enhance collaboration
From maintaining aviation security, to patrolling the country's borders, to granting immigration documentation, the Homeland Security has tremendous responsibilities. As such, it is imperative that the Department has a robust internal investigative mechanism to prevent, deter and investigate …
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Airport Security Checkpoint Screener: An Analytical Study of Job Retention and Attrition Factors
… and job attrition in terms of why an airport security checkpoint screener would try or want to stay on the job or leave the job. By identifying the causes of employee satisfaction and dissatisfaction, and by understanding the integral components of employee turnover can develop appropriate …
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A review of hijack events by airline employees, with a particular reference to Pilot Suicide Using an Aircraft (PSUA): an analysis of the triggering factors and current mitigation
… covering suicide, psychology, terrorism, aviation security and international organisations views. The available information was widely scattered and heavily cluttered. Hence, it was decided to compile an academically accredited and professionally filtered reference that lists relevant …
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Dynamic online resource allocation problems
… organ transplant, and passenger screening in aviation security. This dissertation approaches the dynamic online resource allocation problem by considering two models: multi-objective sequential stochastic assignment problems and online interval scheduling problems. Multi-objective sequential …