Assignment problem for the U.S. Marine Corps: regional, culture, and language familiarization program

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dc.contributor.advisorMyung, Noah
dc.contributor.authorSeipel, Petra L.
dc.contributor.corporateGraduate School of Business & Public Policy (GSBPP)
dc.contributor.secondreaderGates, William
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-18T23:39:16Z
dc.date.available2014-02-18T23:39:16Z
dc.date.issued2013-12
dc.description.abstractU.S. Marine Corps recently developed the Regional, Culture, and Language Familiarization Program (RCLF), which assigns newly promoted sergeants and commissioned officers to one of the 17 regions established by the RCLF office. As of now, there is no formal process established in assigning Marines to one of the 17 regions. The assignment is done manually and oftentimes, by random allocation without a standard operating procedure. We developed two integer-programming models and a matching algorithm that utilizes top trading cycle and serial dictatorship. These models optimize the assignment based on Marines and USMC preferences. We find that the benchmark integer programing model is the best in terms of assigning most Marines within their top four choices. Regardless, satisfaction rate of any of the three models are higher than the random assignment model.en_US
dc.description.distributionstatementApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
dc.description.serviceMajor, United States Marine Corpsen_US
dc.description.urihttp://archive.org/details/assignmentproble1094539012
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10945/39012
dc.publisherMonterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
dc.rightsThis publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.en_US
dc.subject.authorAssignment problemen_US
dc.subject.authorinteger programingen_US
dc.subject.authorRegionalen_US
dc.subject.authorcultureen_US
dc.subject.authorand language familiarization programen_US
dc.subject.authortop trading cycleen_US
dc.subject.authorserial dictatorshipen_US
dc.subject.authoroptimizationen_US
dc.titleAssignment problem for the U.S. Marine Corps: regional, culture, and language familiarization programen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dspace.entity.typePublication
etd.thesisdegree.disciplineBusiness Administrationen_US
etd.thesisdegree.grantorNaval Postgraduate Schoolen_US
etd.thesisdegree.levelMastersen_US
etd.thesisdegree.nameMaster Of Business Administrationen_US
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