AN INVESTIGATION OF OPTIMAL SCHEDULING OF UNDERWAY REPLENISHMENTS.

Abstract

The planning for an underway at sea replenishment operation is treated as a special case of the job scheduling problem. Given the service times of the ships to be replenished, general expressions are obtained for total time to complete the operation and total waiting time of the ships involved. Methods to minimize these expressions are developed for several specific cases. Although the largest size of operation considered in this paper is that of three supply ships and three ships to be replenished, the methods developed are believed to be extendable to larger operations. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0818986

Entities

People

  • Bradley W. Gordon
  • Raymond F. Copes Iii

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Engineering
  • Gantt Charts
  • Management Engineering
  • Management Planning And Control
  • Pert
  • Replenishment
  • Scheduling (Production)

Readers

  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Oceanography.
  • Operations Research