Dynamic security: An agent-based model for airport defense

Author

Weiss, William E.

Author_Institution

MITRE Corp., McLean, VA, USA

fYear

2008

fDate

7-10 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

1320

Lastpage

1325

Abstract

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shifted the focus of airport security in 2004 to incorporate the need to continuously and rapidly adapt security to shifting threats. MITRE is developing a Dynamic Security Airport Simulation as part of a MITRE-sponsored research project in which attacker and defense behavior in the airport environment are modeled. The simulation accepts threat vectors (path-weapon combinations) from other software or the user and models the performance of the airport defense against those threat vectors. The simulation includes two intelligent agents: the attacker and the defense. These agents model the behavior of those two entities; their logic includes both decision making and learning.

Keywords

airports; decision making; multi-agent systems; national security; public administration; security of data; Department of Homeland Security; agent-based model; airport defense; airport security; decision making; dynamic security airport simulation; threat vectors; Airports; Computer security; Decision making; Information security; Intelligent agent; Logic testing; National security; Probes; Software performance; Terrorism;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Simulation Conference, 2008. WSC 2008. Winter

Conference_Location

Austin, TX

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2707-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2708-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WSC.2008.4736205

Filename

4736205