A Markov Decision Process approach for balancing intelligence and interdiction operations in city-level drug trafficking enforcement

We study a resource allocation problem in which law enforcement aims to balance intelligence and interdiction decisions to fight against illegal city-level drug trafficking. We propose a Markov Decision Process framework, apply a column generation technique, and develop a heuristic to solve this pro...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Socio-economic planning sciences 2020-03, Vol.69, p.100700, Article 100700
Hauptverfasser:	Baycik, N. Orkun, Sharkey, Thomas C., Rainwater, Chase E.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Action Column generation Drug trafficking Illegal drug supply chains Intelligence Intelligence and interdiction operations Law enforcement Markov analysis Markov decision process Offenders Resource allocation
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