A Semi-Markov Model for Military Officer Personnel Systems.

Abstract

The military officer personnel system is modeled as a semi-Markov process. The probability distributions descrribing state transitions are developed in terms of policy variables. Effects of changes in promotion policy and force size are studied for both a closed, steady state system and an open, transient situation. Moments of the joint distribution of officers in each rank are presented for all cases. A method for approximation of transient results from known distributions is formulated. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0734972

Entities

People

  • Randall Walter Austin

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Markov Models
  • Markov Processes
  • Mathematics
  • Models
  • Officer Personnel
  • Probabilistic Models
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Steady State

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.
  • Organizational Psychology.