Interdicting nuclear material on cargo containers using knapsack problem models

DOI10.1007/S10479-009-0667-4MaRDI QIDQ646692zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Laura A. Mclay, Jamie D. Lloyd, Emily Niman

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/s10479-009-0667-4

zbMATH Keywords

linear programmingreliabilityknapsack problemport serurity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reliability, availability, maintenance, inspection in operations research (90B25) Combinatorial optimization (90C27)

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