Detecting nuclear materials smuggling: using radiography to improve container inspection policies

DOI10.1007/S10479-010-0717-YMaRDI QIDQ646683zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gary M. Gaukler, Chenhua Li, Rory Cannaday, Sunil S. Chirayath, Yu Ding

Publication date 17 November 2011

Published in Annals of Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-010-0717-y

zbMATH Keywords

queueing networkinspection systemnuclear materialsradiography information

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queues and service in operations research (90B22) Reliability, availability, maintenance, inspection in operations research (90B25) Stochastic network models in operations research (90B15)

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