In North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society, (NAFIPS 2011).
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Abstract
Biological weapons are difficult and expensive to
detect. Within a limited budget, we can afford a limited number
of bio-weapon detector stations. It is therefore important to find
the optimal locations for such stations. A natural idea is to place
more detectors in the areas with more population – and fewer in
desert areas, with fewer people. However, such a commonsense
analysis does not tell us how many detectors to place where.
To decide on the exact placement of bio-weapon detectors, we
formulate the placement problem in precise terms, and come up
with an (almost) explicit solution to the resulting optimization
problem.
