Year
1990
Abstract
One of the responsibilities of the IAEA is to confirm the receipt of international shipments of nuclear material by matching shipments reported by one Member State against receipts reported by another Member State. When sufficient information is available, this matching of receipts against shipments is straightforward. However, due to non-uniform reporting practices in different countries a significant number of reports have to be investigated manually. In these cases the matching reports are often hidden among a large number of other transactions. To identify matchings involves a considerable human intervention in studying lists of declarations and using expert judgement. An expert system. CAHM has been designed and implemented to reduce substantially the manpower required in the phase of Human Transit Matching. This new system is completely integrated within the ISIS data bank, and since January 1989 has completely substituted the previous manual matching system. The current implementation of the system covers the area of the international transfers, CAHM is expected to be expanded to cover domestic transfers as well.