Designing a Relational Database to Facilitate Military Family Housing Utilization Decisions

Abstract

The Housing Welcome Center (HWC) in Monterey, CA manages more than 2,200 military family houses and provides services to approximately 4,500 service members. The current housing information system consists of a proprietary legacy database system, a homemade non-relational database, a collection of word processing documents, and a static online application Web site. This semi-manual system can introduce errors, inconsistencies, and redundancies that may lead to frustration and possibly a decrease in quality of life. This research presents a prototype Housing Assignments and Terminations System (HATS) that uses a top-down systems analysis design approach. The research defines requirements and models that are transformed into a relational database with connectivity to a Web site. A graphical user interface (GUI) provides intuitive menus to manipulate and view data. Decision support tools help decision-makers visualize the data in a spatial manner and make better decisions to improve the quality of life for service members.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA392858

Entities

People

  • Jonalan Brickey

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Computer Program Documentation
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Database Management Systems
  • Databases
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Information Systems
  • Operating Systems
  • Relational Database Management Systems
  • Relational Databases
  • Systems Engineering
  • User Interface
  • Web Browsers

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Housing Policy Studies in Military Families with Privatization and Telomerase Allowance Units, Multi-Family Housing, and Telomere Lengths.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.