Optimizing counter-terror operations: should one fight fire with ``fire or ``water?

DOI10.1016/j.cor.2006.09.017zbMath1139.91029MaRDI QIDQ2462535

Gustav Feichtinger, Dieter Grass, Gernot Tragler, Jonathan P. Caulkins

Publication date: 30 November 2007

Published in: Computers \& Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Optimizing_Counter-Terror_Operations_Should_One_Fight_Fire_with_Fire_or_Water_/6471779

zbMATH Keywords

epidemic modeling; terrorism; counter-terror; optimal dynamic control

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

49N90: Applications of optimal control and differential games

91F99: Other social and behavioral sciences (mathematical treatment)

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