A LINEAR PROGRAMMING MODEL FOR NAVAL OFFICER DISTRIBUTION.
Abstract
The Officer Distribution Plan (ODP) was developed by the Navy in an attempt to provide for the most equitable distribution of officer resources throughout the naval establishment. The thesis demonstrates the feasibility of constructing a linear programming model to represent the U. S. Navy officer personnel system for the purpose of developing the ODP and which can do in minutes what now takes months. Constraints in the model represent officer category limitations, activity configuration and billet eligility. A measure of billet fill effectiveness is developed through the assignment of penalty cost for perfect fills, imperfect fills, unassigned resources and unfilled and overfilled billets based on inventory, requirements and activity priority rating. Two example problems using fiscal year 1969 data are solved to illustrate the technique. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1970
- Accession Number
- AD0712798
Entities
People
- Robert K. Owens
Organizations
- Naval Postgraduate School