11 Distributing Security Resources to Guard a Space

The remainder of the book will focus on a single, extremely practical application. Known as the art gallery problem, this classic application has plenty of research for us to leverage and deals with efficiently distributing security resources to guard a space. Efficiency is an imperative for today’s security teams: there are always more assets to protect than there are resources to protect them. In its grandest form, the art gallery problem ties together the two main disciplines we’ve been studying: graph theory and computational geometry. It’s fitting, then, that this part of the book ...

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