Project 'P. O. L.' (Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricants): Optimizing Procurement of Aviation Fuels for Defense Supply Agency.

Abstract

Defense Department requirements for aviation fuels are met with purchases made in the usual competitive bidding environment. This large-scale contract bidding and selection problem is modeled as a mixed integer linear program with a special structure. The solution of this large optimization problem is approached via an algorithm employing decomposition and implicit enumeration techniques which exploit the special structure of the underlying formulation. Computational results are discussed, and a FORTRAN computer program which implements the basic algorithm (POLKA) is exhibited. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1974
Accession Number
AD0775053

Entities

People

  • Larry M. Austin
  • William W. Hogan

Organizations

  • United States Air Force Academy

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Aviation Fuels
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Contracts
  • Decomposition
  • Environment
  • Evolutionary Algorithms
  • Fuels
  • Heuristic Methods
  • Linear Programming
  • Lubricants
  • Mathematics
  • Optimization
  • Procurement

Readers

  • Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Engineering.
  • Operations Research