Optimization Tradecraft: Hard-Won Insights from Real-World Decision Support

Abstract

Practitioners of optimization-based decision support advise commerce and government on how to coordinate the activities of millions of people who employ assets worth trillions of dollars. The contributions of these practitioners substantially improve planning methods that benefit our security and welfare. The success of real world optimization applications depends on a few trade secrets that are essential, but that rarely, if at all, appear in textbooks. This paper summarizes a set of these secrets and uses examples to discuss each.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA549424

Entities

People

  • Gerald G. Jerry Brown
  • Richard E. Rosenthal

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Basic Programming Language
  • Commerce
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Flow Network
  • Integer Programming
  • Language
  • Linear Programming
  • Materials
  • Mathematical Models
  • Mathematical Programming
  • Money
  • Operations Research
  • Optimization
  • Simplex Method
  • Standards

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Economics
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.