Thanks to the advent of new technologies and higher real-time computational capabilities,
the use of unmanned vehicles in the marine domain has received a significant boost in the …

Despite their use for modeling traffic in ports and regional waters, multi-agent simulations
have not yet been applied to model maritime traffic on a global scale. We therefore propose …

ABSTRACT A number of real-world security scenarios can be cast as a problem of transiting
an area patrolled by a mobile adversary, where the transiting agent aims to choose its route …

Contemporary maritime piracy around the Horn of Africa presents a serious threat to the
global shipping industry. A number of countermeasures were deployed to minimize the …

A new framework1 mixing evolutionary approach, discrete-event simulation and deep neural
networks is proposed to achieve multi-asset collection/image acquisition scheduling in a …

Maritime shipping is a set of complex activities with a large number of actors involved. We
focus on a subset of illegal maritime activities, such as armed robberies, maritime piracy or …

The situation around the Horn of Africa is critical. The pirates attack transiting vessels on
daily basis and even though various counter-piracy measures have been employed, there is …

In this paper, a multi-agent based simulation platform is introduced that focuses on
legitimate and illegitimate aspects of maritime traffic, mainly on intercontinental transport …

Effective security of today's transportation infrastructures is difficult to achieve without
computeraided approach. We develop a set of security-enhancing computational methods …

Combating piracy is an age-old mission for international navies, as piracy has troubled
ocean-going vessels for centuries. Somali piracy, like all piracy uprisings in the past, is a …