Design and Implementation of a Network Optimizer for Officer Assignment during Mobilization.

Abstract

This thesis describes the design and implementation of a large-scale network optimization model for assigning Marine Corps officers to billets during mobilization. The new model has been tested at Headquarters, USMC and is slated for installation in FY 1988 as a permanent replacement for an existing procedure that has been in use since 1978. The new model improves the turnaround time from days to minutes, reduces computation costs by substantial amounts yearly , and in tests on FY87 data, resulted in significantly better allocations of the officer pool, according to several measures of effectiveness. The network model treats officers with similar attributes as supply nodes and billets with similar attributes as demand nodes. Arcs of the network represent potential assignments between supplies and demands. Highly detailed information obtained from current USMC databases is used to specify the attributes of the nodes. These attributes are used to decide which officer/billet arcs are allowed in the networks.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA187772

Entities

People

  • Stephen H. Rapp

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computations
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Linear Programming
  • Mainframe Computers
  • Measures Of Effectiveness
  • Operations Research
  • Optimization
  • Schools
  • Students
  • Training
  • Transportation
  • United States
  • United States Naval Academy
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Military Mobilization and Reserve Forces Studies.
  • Neural Network Machine Learning.
  • Operations Research