Modeling Challenges of Securing Gates for a Protected Area in Society 5.0

Abstract

Preventing malicious attacks on secured areas, such as airports and government installations, is a major concern as terror organizations increase their global reach. Typically, traffic in and out of such protected areas happens through well-defined gates. Therefore, an attacker who wants to penetrate the area has to do it through one of the gates, and the defender should try to prevent it by inspecting the incoming traffic. Security personnel face the complex problem of protecting the area and preventing an attacker from penetrating into it, when having limited resources, and while ensuring the satisfaction and comfort of the vast majority of innocent entities who pass through them. In this chapter we outline the challenges associated with using mathematical models to solve this problem.