A Multi-Page Goal Programming Model and Algorithm for Navy Officer Rotations.

Abstract

A recursive multi-page assignment model is developed for effecting officer rotations in the U.S. Navy. Promotions and retirements are explicitly taken into account, just as in the earlier papers which are here extended to include other rotation-assignment processes and to accession of new officers. The developments used provide a structural form which is amenable to efficient computational procedures even for the dynamic case and an 'uncoupling' approach is also developed which allows further simplification and improvements in efficiency. This is accomplished in part by a transformation which takes the goal programming model with Markov transition probabilities into a rim adjustment solution process. Numerical examples are provided which illustrate the general case by reference to 2-period 3-officer classes rotations that involve assignments to both sea and shore duties. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1974
Accession Number
ADA000433

Entities

People

  • Abraham Charnes
  • D. Cass
  • R. J. Niehaus
  • William W. Cooper

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Computer Programming
  • Efficiency
  • Evolutionary Algorithms
  • Genetic Algorithms
  • Goal Programming
  • Heuristic Methods
  • Mathematics
  • Probability
  • Rotation
  • Transitions

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.