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Optimum Strategies of Container Inspection at Port-of-Entry
Containers arriving at ports may contain undesirable contents such as drugs, radioactive material or chemical and biochemical agents.
Inspection of a fraction of these containers (randomly or based on some risk factor) might lead to an improved security system.
Clearly, there is a probability that a container with undesirable contents might enter into the system without detection or a "clean" container
might be subjected to a thorough inspection.
The objective of this project is determine the optimum inspection strategy that minimizes the occurrence of the above probabilities.
Approaches such as the development of adaptive threshold levels of the inspection sensors based on the assigned risk factor might prove to
an efficient inspection strategy. The research investigates new and efficient inspection strategies.