Implementing Security Improvement Options at Los Angeles International Airport

Stevens, Donald; Hamilton, Thomas; Schaffer, Marvin Baker; Dunham-Scott, Diana; Medby, Jamison Jo; Chan, Edward W; Gibson, John G.; Eisman, Mel; Mesic, Richard; Kelley, Charles T.; Kim, Julie; LaTourrette, Tom; Riley, K. Jack

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“…LAX Domain. LAX is the fifth busiest and the largest destination airport in the United States; it serves 60-70 million passengers per year (Los Angeles World Airports 2010, Stevens et al 2006). LAX is known to be a prime terrorist target on the west coast of the United States; multiple plotters have been arrested attempting to attack it (Stevens et al 2006).…”

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“…LAX is the fifth busiest and the largest destination airport in the United States; it serves 60-70 million passengers per year (Los Angeles World Airports 2010, Stevens et al 2006). LAX is known to be a prime terrorist target on the west coast of the United States; multiple plotters have been arrested attempting to attack it (Stevens et al 2006). To protect LAX, airport police have designed a security system that uses multiple rings of protection, e.g., vehicular checkpoints, police units patrolling the roads to the terminals, canines patrolling inside the terminals, passenger security screening, and bag checks.…”

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Software Assistants for Randomized Patrol Planning for the LAX Airport Police and the Federal Air Marshal Service

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The increasing threat of terrorism makes security at major locations of economic or political importance a major concern. Limited security resources prevent complete security coverage, allowing adversaries to observe and exploit patterns in patrolling or monitoring, and enabling them to plan attacks that avoid existing patrols. The use of randomized security policies that are more difficult for adversaries to predict and exploit can counter their surveillance capabilities. We describe two applications, ARMOR and IRIS, that assist security forces in randomizing their operations. These applications are based on fast algorithms for solving large instances of Bayesian Stackelberg games. Police at the Los Angeles International Airport deploy ARMOR to randomize the placement of checkpoints on roads entering the airport and the routes of canine unit patrols within the airport terminals. The Federal Air Marshal Service has deployed IRIS in a pilot program to randomize the schedules of air marshals on international flights. This paper examines the design choices, information, and evaluation criteria that were critical to developing these applications.

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“…Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is the fifth busiest airport in the United States, the largest destination airport in the United States, and serves 60 to 70 million passengers per year (Stevens et. al.…”

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An Overview of Recent Application Trends at the AAMAS Conference: Security, Sustainability, and Safety

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Tambe

2012

AI Magazine

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A key feature of the AAMAS conference is its emphasis on ties to real-world applications. The focus of this article is to provide a broad overview of application-focused papers published at the AAMAS 2010 and 2011 conferences. More specifically, recent applications at AAMAS could be broadly categorized as belonging to research areas of security, sustainability and safety. We outline the domains of applications, key research thrusts underlying each such application area, and emerging trends.

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“…LAX is known to be a prime terrorist target on the west coast of the United States, with multiple arrests of plotters attempting to attack LAX [42]. To protect LAX, the airport police have designed a security system that utilizes multiple rings of protection.…”

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“…LAX is the fifth busiest airport in the United States, the largest destination airport in the United States, and serves 60-70 million passengers per year [1,42]. LAX is known to be a prime terrorist target on the west coast of the United States, with multiple arrests of plotters attempting to attack LAX [42].…”

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Deployed Security Games for Patrol Planning

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Jara

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International Series in Operations Research &Amp; Management Science

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Nations and organizations need to secure locations of economic, military, or political importance from groups or individuals that can cause harm. The fact that there are limited security resources prevents complete security coverage, which allows adversaries to observe and exploit patterns in patrolling or monitoring, and enables them to plan attacks that avoid existing patrols. The use of randomized security policies that are more difficult for adversaries to predict and exploit can counter their surveillance capabilities and improve security. In this chapter we describe the recent development of models to assist security forces in randomizing their patrols and their deployment in real applications. The systems deployed are based on fast algorithms for solving large instances of Bayesian Stackelberg games that capture the interaction between security forces and adversaries. Here we describe a generic mathematical formulation of these models, present some of the results that have allowed these systems to be deployed in practice, and outline remaining future challenges. We discuss the deployment of these systems in two real-world security applications: 1) The police at the Los Angeles International Airport uses these models to randomize the placement of checkpoints on roads entering the airport and the routes of canine unit patrols within the airport terminals.2) The Federal Air Marshal Service uses these models to randomize the schedules of air marshals on international flights.

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Implementing Security Improvement Options at Los Angeles International Airport

Cited by 39 publications

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Software Assistants for Randomized Patrol Planning for the LAX Airport Police and the Federal Air Marshal Service

Software Assistants for Randomized Patrol Planning for the LAX Airport Police and the Federal Air Marshal Service

An Overview of Recent Application Trends at the AAMAS Conference: Security, Sustainability, and Safety

Deployed Security Games for Patrol Planning

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