A Prototype Decision Support System for Marine Corps Officer Allocation Policy Analysis.
Abstract
This thesis presents the prototype for an integrated decision support system which permits repeated formulation and solution of the Marine Corps staffing allocation problem under various user-controlled policy scenarios. The system allows the decision maker to vary the eligibility criteria used to determine who may be transferred as well as to adjust the relative priorities of two objectives: minimize relocation costs and maximize fit as defined by the Marine Corps. The user may also set a minimum acceptable aspiration level for the total fill of all billets. Based on the eligibility requirements which are input by the user, the system extracts data on individual Marines and the jobs that need to be filled, and matches people to billets using a set of matching rules developed by the Marine Corps. The resulting matches are then transformed into a capacitated transshipment network for solution in a special commercial optimization software package. The network formulation models a multiobjective allocation problem using optimization techniques to permit adjustment of some of the objective priorities. Keywords: Theses: Computer programs. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1987
- Accession Number
- ADA186305
Entities
People
- Philip J. Exner
Organizations
- Naval Postgraduate School