Asset Allocation to Cover a Region of Piracy

Abstract

Piracy in the Gulf of Aden and the waters around Somalia has increased in recent years, with international naval assets allocated to patrol at-risk areas. This paper compares measures of area coverage in situations where there is a uniform piracy risk and where some areas are more vulnerable than others. Simulated annealing was used to allocate the patrolling naval assets. The novel problem of positioning a coalition of ships whilst incorporating the transit of a non-coalition ship that may respond to a piracy incident but can not be prepositioned is addressed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA553559

Entities

People

  • Marc West

Organizations

  • Defence Science and Technology Group

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Annealing
  • Australia
  • Basic Programming Language
  • Coverings
  • Indian Ocean
  • Maritime Security
  • Mathematical Programming
  • Mathematics
  • Measures Of Effectiveness
  • Naval Vessels
  • Operations Research
  • Patrolling
  • Probability
  • Security
  • Ships
  • Spreadsheet Software

Readers

  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.
  • Naval Engineering and Maritime Security