NewScientist

Playing games with airport security guards sounds like a bad idea, but Praveen Paruchuri of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles is trying to thwart criminals by doing just that.

Guards are usually told to patrol in a random fashion but, being human, they tend to form habits that patient criminals can exploit. To help make their rounds less predictable, Paruchuri and colleagues created software based on game theory that simulates various random paths that a guard could take around Los Angeles International airport (LAX), and also how...

DNA India article by Dhananjay Khadilkar

New anti-terror weapon: Game theory

City airports can benefit from the new security software in use at the Los Angeles airport

A new weapon has surfaced in the war on terror. No, it’s not some sophisticated or powerful firearm. It’s an algorithm for airport security developed by two Indian researchers at the University of California’s (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering.

Police at Los Angeles Airport will begin to patrol on schemes compiled by a computer program. Schemes provide complete unpredictability of police movements, according to the University of Southern California (University of South Carolina).

Airport patrols are responsible for the absence of...

Software enlisted in airport security

by Larry Gordon

Los Angeles Times

The doctoral dissertation of a 26-year-old USC computer science student is having an unusual effect on security and transportation at Los Angeles International Airport.

That’s because the LAX police are giving a trial run to a new computer program that, they say, seeks to keep potential terrorists and criminals constantly uncertain about where, when and how often vehicles will be...