A Simulation Study of an Optimization Model for Surface Nuclear Accession Planning

Abstract

This thesis examines a nontraditional approach to a manpower planning problem. This approach combines two operations research methodologies: simulation and optimization. The combined approach, which is referred to as SIMOP, models the manpower planning problem as a linear program and, through simulation techniques, allows the input data to be random, based on the experimentation performed in this study, the average results from the SIMOP model can be quite different from the result obtained using a traditional optimization model. Also presented are applications of the SIMOP model to military manpower planning. Keywords: Manpower; Optimization; Simulation; Manpower planning model; Surface nuclear officers; Linear program; Theses.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA219228

Entities

People

  • Darrel M. Morben

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • California
  • Computer Programming
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Linear Programming
  • Military Personnel
  • Navy
  • Nuclear Powered Ships
  • Operations Research
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Regression Analysis
  • Schools
  • Simulations
  • Surface Warfare
  • Training
  • United States
  • United States Naval Academy

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Naval Personnel Management