A Multi-Tree Committee to assist port-of-entry inspection decisions

Pablo Romero, Jorge Graneri, Omar Viera, Sandro Moscatelli and Libertad Tansini

European Journal of Operational Research, 2016, vol. 253, issue 1, 170-177

Abstract: A natural way to avoid the injection of potentially dangerousor illicit products in a certain country is by means of protection, following a strict port-of-entry inspection policy. A naive exhaustive manual inspection is the most secure policy. However, the number of within containers allows only to check a limited number of containers by day. As a consequence, a smart port-of-entry selection policy must trade cost of inspection with security, in order to fit into the dynamic operation of a port.

Keywords: Risk analysis; Port-of-entry; Inspection policy; Binary decision tree; Multi-Tree Committee (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2015.12.054

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