Optimizing Asset Deployment in Maritime Law Enforcement
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Maritime security operations, such as counter-piracy operations, often take place in vast areas of open sea. This requires operating in a coalition task force consisting of multiple task units, each composed of a number of naval assets such as frigates, helicopters, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). For the planning of these operations, we introduce a two-level approach. At the first level, the area of operations is divided into sectors and the available task units are assigned to these sectors. The second level consists of the tactical planning of the deployment of the individual assets of a task unit within the task unit’s sector. In this paper, we propose algorithms to tackle both levels of planning. For maritime security operations in general, we introduce an allocation algorithm for dividing an area of operations, based on the capabilities of the individual task units, in such a way that the expected effectiveness of the task force as a whole is optimal. For counter-piracy operations, where the focus is on the prevention of pirate attacks on merchant vessels, a search planning algorithm is introduced that allows generating effective search plans for the deployment of the task unit’s assets within a sector of the area of operations
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TNO Identifier
812854
ISBN
978-94-6265-245-3 (print)
978-94-6265-246-0 (online)
978-94-6265-246-0 (online)
Publisher
T.M.C. Asser Press/Springer
Source title
NL ARMS Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies 2018 Coastal Border Control: From Data and Tasks to Deployment and Law Enforcement
Editor(s)
Monsuur, H.
Jansen, J.M.
Marchal, F.J.
Jansen, J.M.
Marchal, F.J.
Place of publication
The Hague
Pages
145-170
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