IIE Transactions articles from January 2007

IIE Transactions archives from January 2007

Editors' introduction: special issue on homeland security.(Editorial)
January 1, 2007... The events of September 11, 2001 will forever affect the lives of all those who observed their consequences. These events have changed the way in which people live and carry on their everyday affairs. These events also ignited the engineering...

Models for nuclear smuggling interdiction.
January 1, 2007... 1. Introduction We develop stochastic network interdiction models designed to locate radiation sensors, which detect gamma and neutron emissions from nuclear material, at critical border crossings in the Former Soviet Union (FSU). The goal...

Algorithms for discrete and continuous multicommodity flow network interdiction problems.
January 1, 2007... 1. Introduction In the network interdiction problem, a leader (also called as an interdictor), partially or fully destroys arcs of some network in order to block the follower's (also called evader or enemy) flows, delay the delivery length...

Allocation and reallocation of ambulances to casualty clusters in a disaster relief operation.
January 1, 2007... 1. Introduction Our research is motivated by a disaster relief situation which deals with rescuing casualties after the occurrence of a natural or man-made disaster. Examples of such events include land earthquakes and tsunamis (see (Anon,...

A modeling framework for facility location of medical services for large-scale emergencies.
January 1, 2007... 1. Introduction Research on facility location problems is abundant and many models have been developed to formulate and solve various location problems. However, prior work on facility location problems has not considered the special...

Toward modeling and simulation of critical national infrastructure interdependencies.
January 1, 2007... 1. Introduction The continued prosperity and national security of the US is dependent on the reliable operation of a complex network of interdependent, large-scale, critical infrastructures. The impact of disruptions, deliberate or...

Integer programming models and analysis for a multilevel passenger screening problem.
January 1, 2007... 1. Introduction Four commercial aircraft were hijacked and used as bombs to destroy the World Trade Center twin towers and inflict severe damage to the Pentagon on September 11,2001. There have been widespread aviation security policy and...

Modeling no-notice mass evacuation using a dynamic traffic flow optimization model.
January 1, 2007... 1. Introduction Mass evacuation is required when a natural or man-made extreme event (e.g., hurricane, flooding, hazmat release, or terrorist attack) strikes or threatens a populated area exposing it to an immediate or imminent...

Allocating security resources to a water supply network.
January 1, 2007... 1. Introduction The President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection identified eight key infrastructures that provide essential services to our society (PPD 63, 1998). They are: (i) energy systems; (ii) telecommunications;...