Simulation-Based Dynamic Optimization: Planning United States Coast Guard Law Enforcement Patrols
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Bailey, Michael P.
Dell, Robert F.
Glazebrook, Kevin D.
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1994
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A primary mission for the United States Coast Guard
(USCG) operating in coastal United States waters is
to interdict contraband. The USCG schedules a fleet
of cutters to meet this mission and seeks a way to
determine the operational efficiency of a particular
schedule. This paper develops a methodology based
on generating a sequence of finite horizon dynamic
programs (DPs), where each DP differs only in the
way the smuggling vessels and the cutters interact.
The DP takes the point of view of the smuggler
who wishes to develop the smuggling strategy which
ma..ximizes some characteristic (e.g., the mean) of the
profit attained. The DP explicitly accounts for a smuggler
who must combine his short-run profit goals
with his need to gain future information about the
configuration of the cutters. We develop a Monte
Carlo sampling procedure to generate estimates of the
random variables used in the DP.
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Proceedings of the 1994 Winter Simulation Conference ed. J. D. Tew, S. Manivannan, D. A. Sadowski, and A. F. Seila
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Operations Research (OR)
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