Enlisted Personnel Allocation System. Volume 1 and 2 - Appendixes
Abstract
The U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI) is undertaking a comprehensive research program designed to improve the selection, classification, and allocation of Army personnel. A key part of this program is the Enlisted Personnel Allocation System (EPAS). EPAS will improve personnel performance by achieving a better match between the Army's requirements and the capabilities of the people applying for service. This Annual Progress Report presents an overview of the current prototype version of EPAS. Appendix A presents a summary of the analysis that led to this formulation. Appendix B contains a detailed functional analysis of the current EPAS. The prototype decision support system (DSS), the Enlisted Personnel Allocation System (EPAS) uses forecasting and large-scale linear optimization to improve the Army's person-job match capabilities. Because of the complexity of this effort, the authors first developed a reduced-scale prototype to evaluate their systems design. The prototype system validated the EPAS design concept. The prototype demonstrated the feasibility of using this complex DSS to guide Army guidance counselors' classification decisions and to evaluate their systems design. The prototype system validated the EPAS design concept. The prototype demonstrated the feasibility of using this complex DSS to guide Army guidance counselors' classification decisions and to evaluate recruiting strategies.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1988
- Accession Number
- ADA209274
Entities
People
- Frank Konieczny
- George Brown
- James Hutton
- Randall Hudson
- Robert F Davis