Determining the optimal flow of student sections at the Naval Guided Missiles School
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Authors
Willingham, David Geary
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Advisors
McMasters, Alan W.
Date of Issue
1971-09
Date
Publisher
Monterey, California ; Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
The problem of determining the capacity of a facility,
such as the Fleet Ballistic Missile School, to train sections
of students attending numerous distinct courses was considered
as an optimizing problem, approachable in two phases.'
In the first pliase a linear programming model was developed
for determining the maximum number of courses and the optimal
mix of these courses which the school can convene in one year. This model incorporates resource constraints, course content
requirements, and the requirement to graduate a specified
number of trainees over time. In the second phase, criteria were developed to sequence the Phase I optimal number of convenings of each course into an annual schedule. A heuristic
approach was presented to test such a schedule for
feasibility.
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Thesis
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Department
Operations Research
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School