A Methodology for Identifying Cost Effective Strategic Force Mixes.
Abstract
This thesis represents a methodology for the identification of cost effective strategic force mixes. The methodology makes use of Response Surface Methodology (RSM), economic production functions, economic theory, deterministic models, and Lagrangian techniques to identify cost effective choices. The methodology fits economic production functions to the response surface of a nuclear exchange model (a linear programming problem) using RSM. It then maximizes these economic production function subject to a cost constraint using the Lagrangian technique. The use of economic production functions in this manner gives economic insight into the problem and results in the development of some simple buy decision rules for determination of cost effective force mixes. The classical use of polynomial models does not provide the same degree of information as the economic production functions, and information gained from the polynomial requires much more work. Keywords include: Response surface methodology (RSM), Production functions, Economics, and Lagrangian.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1984
- Accession Number
- ADA151773
Entities
People
- T. W. Manacapilli
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology