A Hypercube Queuing Model Approach to the Police Units Allocation Problem

Nilson Felipe Matos Mendes, André Gustavo dos Santos

2016

Abstract

Providing security requires efficient police services. Considering this, we deal in this paper with the police units allocation problem. To describe the problem a probabilistic model based on Hypercube Queuing Model is proposed. Considering an action radius and constraints for minimal coverage and mandatory closeness, the model aims to allocate police units on several points of an urban area to minimize the expected distance traveled by these units when they are answering calls for service. A VND heuristic is used to solve the model, and we analyse the improvement of using a Tabu Serach method instead of a random initialization. We experiment the methods in scenarios with different parameters values to verify the robustness and suitability of the proposed model. The results presented a high influence of service time on solutions quality, some difficulties in getting feasible solutions.

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Mendes N. and dos Santos A. (2016). A Hypercube Queuing Model Approach to the Police Units Allocation Problem . In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-187-8, pages 70-81. DOI: 10.5220/0005837800700081


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@conference{iceis16,
author={Nilson Felipe Matos Mendes and André Gustavo dos Santos},
title={A Hypercube Queuing Model Approach to the Police Units Allocation Problem},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2016},
pages={70-81},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005837800700081},
isbn={978-989-758-187-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - A Hypercube Queuing Model Approach to the Police Units Allocation Problem
SN - 978-989-758-187-8
AU - Mendes N.
AU - dos Santos A.
PY - 2016
SP - 70
EP - 81
DO - 10.5220/0005837800700081