Coast Guard drug interdiction: a renewal-reward approach to determine optimum investigation time

A renewal-reward model is developed to predict the optimum amount of time that Coast Guard personnel should spend investigating a vessel for illicit substances. The optimal investigation time is determined with respect to three criteria; maximizing the number of arrests, maximizing the quantity of d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Copeland, Eric A.
Other Authors: Gaver, Donald Paul
Language:en_US
Published: Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10945/22947