Naval Postgraduate School
Theses and Dissertations
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A Brownian bridge movement model to track mobile targets
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2016-09)
The Brownian bridge movement model (BBMM) models target movement between two known points as a Brownian bridge. This thesis extended the BBMM to account for multiple starting and ending points and to account for intelligence ...
Effect of the Environment and Environmental Uncertainty on Ship Routes
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2012-06)
The United States Navy (USN) uses Optimal Track Ship Routing provided by ship routing officers (SRO) to aid in the safe transit of its ships. When a ship makes a transit, the ship provides the SRO an origin, a destination, ...
Analysis of I Marine Expeditionary Force support team reset operations
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2013-06)
Non-deployed United States Marine Corps (USMC) ground units are in a degraded state of supply readiness as a result of over a decade of war. Due to current fiscal constraints and budget pressures the USMC cannot purchase ...
Using discrete-event simulation to analyze personnel requirements for the Malaysian Army's new utility helicopter fleet
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2016-06)
This thesis describes the analysis used to determine personnel requirements for the Malaysian Army's S61A-4 utility helicopter fleet. We use discrete-event simulation (DES) to model maintenance activities in the Malaysian ...
An exploration of the communications environment within the System of Systems Survivability Simulation (S4)
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2011-06)
The U.S. Army is transforming into a network-centric modular force. Developed by the Army Research Laboratory's Survivability/Lethality Analysis Directorate, in conjunction with New Mexico State University's Physical Science ...
Capturing the full potential of the Synthetic Theater Operations Research Model (STORM)
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014-09)
The Synthetic Theater Operations Research Model (STORM) is the primary campaign analysis tool used by the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Assessment Division (OPNAV N81) and other Department of Defense organizations ...
Optimizing microgrid architecture on Department of Defense installations
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014-09)
Energy managers are faced with the challenge of upgrading their installation microgrids in a tight fiscal environment, while meeting the challenges of incorporating higher percentages of renewable energy sources and providing ...
Changing the paradigm simulation, a method of first resort
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2011-09)
The computing capability to which Operations Research (OR) analysts have access today is over 1,000,000,000 times more powerful than the first simulation pioneers had sixty years ago, yet the concept that simulation is a ...
Particle filtering methods for incorporating intelligence updates
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2017-03)
Due to uncertainty in target locations, stochastic models are implemented to provide a representation of location distribution. The reliability of these models has a profound effect on the ability to successfully interdict ...
An analysis of "shoot-and-scoot" tactics
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2017-03)
Firing multiple rounds of artillery from the same location has several benefits: a high rate of fire at the enemy and potentially improved accuracy as the shooter's aim adjusts to previous rounds. Firing many rounds from ...