Human trafficking is a widespread and compound social, economic, and human rights issue
occurring in every region of the world. While there have been an increasing number of anti …

The covert nature of sex trafficking provides a significant barrier to generating large-scale,
data-driven insights to inform law enforcement, policy and social work. We leverage massive …

Recent estimates indicate that there are over a million runaway and homeless youth and
young adults (RHY) in the United States (US). Exposure to trauma, violence, and substance …

We consider a new class of multi-period network interdiction problems, where interdiction
and restructuring decisions are decided upon before the network is operated and …

Despite the global reach and economic scale of cocaine trafficking, our best geographic
understanding of the global trade remains coarse. A more spatially disaggregated …

One of the major challenges associated with applying Operations Research (OR) models to
disrupting human trafficking networks is the limited amount of reliable data sources readily …

This paper presents a bi-level network interdiction model to increase the effectiveness of
attempting to disrupt a human trafficking network under a resource constrained environment …

Human trafficking, the commercial exploitation of individuals, is a gross violation of human
rights; harming societies, economies, health and development. The related disciplines of …

This study presents a mathematical model for optimizing warehouse-location decisions in
supply-chain network design. Previous studies have focused on the facility-location problem …

This paper addresses the multi-commodity maximum flow network interdiction problem (MC-
MFNIP) which involves two opposite sides with conflicting objectives in the presence of …