Prioritizing and scheduling safeguards and security upgrade projects under restricted budgets
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
- Decision Focus, Inc., Mountain View, CA (United States)
Safeguards and security upgrade projects are selected to meet a variety of disparate, sometimes conflicting, concerns that have been identified by vulnerability studies and other reviews. Trade-offs must frequently be made regarding project selection and scheduling. This paper describes a two-phase, quantitative methodology that explicitly addresses the trade-offs between competing safeguards objectives, and selects and schedules safeguards upgrade projects in a manner that ensures that the maximum benefit is realized within time and budget constraints. In the first phase, a multiattribute preference model is developed to provide a quantitative measure of the relative values that management places on meeting different objectives. In the second phase, an optimization model is used to select and schedule upgrade projects in the most effective manner with respect to the priorities specified in the preference model. The optimization model can accommodate complex relationships among upgrades projects and safeguards objectives that are not captured by simple ranking schemes.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 6592777
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-JC-110105; CONF-9207102-74; ON: DE93009516
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM) annual meeting, Orlando, FL (United States), 19-22 Jul 1992
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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