Discrete-Event Simulation for the Design and Evaluation of Physical Protection Systems

This paper explores the use of discrete-event simulation for the design and control of physical protection systems for fixed-site facilities housing items of significant value. It begins by discussing several modeling and simulation activities currently performed in designing and analyzing these protection systems and then discusses capabilities that design/analysis tools should have. The remainder of the article then discusses in detail how some of these new capabilities have been implemented in software to achieve a prototype design and analysis tool. The simulation software technology provides a communications mechanism between a running simulation and one or more external programs. In the prototype security analysis tool, these capabilities are used to facilitate human-in-the-loop interaction and to support a real-time connection to a virtual reality (VR) model of the facility being analyzed. This simulation tool can be used for both training (in realtime mode) and facility analys...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: WSC
• Authors: Sabina E. Jordan, Mark K. Snell, Marcella M. Madsen, Jeffrey S. Smith, Brett A. Peters
• Keywords: Fixed-site Facilities, Modeling And Simulation, Protection Systems, Simulation, WSC 1998