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Region adjacency graph in sabotage studies

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:7247233
Fixed-site safeguards systems have been modeled by weighted graphs (networks) in which shortest paths represent routes that are optimal for saboteurs. Realistic models involving hundreds of nodes and arcs can be efficiently solved by methods based on Dijkstra's algorithm. The greatest effort is in the preparation of the model. This report shows how the usual sabotage graphs can be greatly simplified for special cases in which all the arcs of a region have the same weight. The resulting model, a region adjacency graph, has many fewer nodes and arcs and consequently requires less effort for both model preparation and pathfinding. Since the arc weights really should vary within a region for physical reasons, this simplified technique should be viewed as approximate insofar as this variation is ignored.
Research Organization:
Sandia Labs., Albuquerque, N.Mex. (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
E(29-1)-789
OSTI ID:
7247233
Report Number(s):
SAND-76-0574
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English