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DIMACS/Los Alamos National Laboratory Partnership on Algorithms for Port-of-Entry Inspection


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  • EURO XXII, Prague, Chech Republic, July 8-11, 2007

    • Large Scale LP Models for Finding Optimal Container Inspection Strategies, E. Boros (joint research with L. Fedzhora, P.B. Kantor, K. Saeger and P. Stroud)

  • Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy, June 27, 2007

    • Large Scale LP Models for Finding Optimal Container Inspection Strategies, E. Boros (joint research with L. Fedzhora, P.B. Kantor, K. Saeger and P. Stroud)

  • IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI-2007), New Brunswick, NJ, May 23-24, 2007

    • Sequential Decision Making Algorithms for Port of Entry Inspection: Overcoming Computational Challenges, David Madigan, Sushil Mittal, and Fred Roberts [pdf]
  • Project Seminar, DIMACS, Piscataway, NJ, Nov 13-14, 2006
    • Improving the Risk-Scoring Algorithm of Marine Cargo Containers, Richard Hoshino, Senior Project Officer at Canada Border Services Agency
  • Risk Symposium 2006. Risk Analysis for Homeland Security and Defense: Theory and Application, Santa Fe, NM, March 20-22, 2006

    • Large Scale LP Models for Finding Optimal Container Inspection Strategies, E. Boros (joint research with L. Fedzhora, P.B. Kantor, K. Saeger and P. Stroud)
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Nov 13-16, 2005

      • Modeling Cargo Flow Security Operations in Marine Ports, T. Altiok, B. Melamed and K. Saeger

      • Decision Support Algorithms for Port-of-Entry Inspection, P. Stroud and F. Roberts [link to ppt]

      • Optimum Inspection Strategies for Port Entry Containers, E. Elsayed, C. Schroepfer, P. Stroud and H. Zhao

      • OR Models for Finding Optimal Container Inspection Strategies, E. Boros, L. Fedzhora, P. Kantor and P. Stroud

  • Conference on Mathematical Methods in Counterterrorism, Columbia, SC, Nov 2005

    • Algorithms for Port of Entry Inspection for WMDs, Fred S. Roberts [link to ppt]

  • DHS meeting on "Research and Development Partnerships in Homeland Security," Boston, MA, Apr 2005

    • Decision Support Algorithms for Port of Entry Inspection, Fred S. Roberts [link to ppt]


Document last modified on July 16, 2007.