Homeland Security: Operations Research Initiatives and Applications

A Survey of Operations Research Models and Applications in Homeland Security

Operations research has had a long and distinguished history of work in emergency preparedness and response, airline security, transportation of hazardous materials, and threat and vulnerability analysis. Since the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the formation of the US Department of Homeland Security, these topics have been gathered under the broad umbrella of homeland security. In addition,...

Homeland Security Research Program Research Framework

Sensor Placement for Urban Homeland Security Applications

We simulated a sensor network that detects and tracks the release of harmful airborne contaminants in an urban environment. The simulation determines sensor placement in that environment. The effort required integration of models from computational fluid dynamics (CFDs), combinatorial optimization, and population mobility dynamics. These CFD models, coupled with population mobility models, faci...

Homeland Security

Some Applications of Semidefinite Optimization from an Operations Research Viewpoint