Combining and Analyzing the Tanker and Aircrew Scheduling Heuristics

Abstract

Air refueling is an integral part of U,S air power across a wide range of military operations. It is an essential capability in the conduct of air operations worldwide and is especially important when overseas basing is limited or not available. The planning, tasking, and scheduling of aerial refueling require solution of two major problems: assigning and scheduling of tankers to refueling points and efficiently assigning crews to each tanker. To address the scheduling of tankers, Wiley (2001) developed an efficient tabu search approach. Combs (2002) developed another tabu search approach to assign crews to tankers. This research combines the two scheduling heuristics so that the tanker schedules generated by the tanker scheduling heuristics can feed the crew scheduling heuristic.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA412689

Entities

People

  • Cem Boke

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Power
  • Aircrafts
  • Algorithms
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Deployment
  • Engineering
  • Experimental Design
  • Flight Crews
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Military Operations
  • Operations Research
  • Refueling
  • Refueling In Flight
  • Scheduling (Production)
  • Statistics
  • Tanker Aircraft

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Operations Research