Theses and Dissertations
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Operational Logistics Wargame
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2001-12)
This thesis provides an interactive wargame for use by students of Operational Logistics at the Naval Postgraduate School. The objective of the wargame is to show students how their decisions regarding resupply of combatant ...
Optimized procurement and retirement planning of Navy Ships and Aircraft
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2001-12)
three categories of money. CIPA APU tracks average aircraft age, expected attrition, and allows planners to specify a platformαs mission suitability. It also provides expeditious feedback to requests for alternate scenario ...
Funding site cleanup at closing Army installations : a stochastic optimization approach
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2001-12)
To reduce domestic military infrastructure, the United States enacted two laws that instituted rounds of base realignment and closure (BRAC) in 1988, 1991, 1993, and 1995. As a result of these BRAC rounds, the United States ...
A Lagrangian Heuristic for solving a network interdiction problem
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2001-12)
This thesis is concerned with solving or approximately solving a maximum-flow network-interdiction problem denoted MXFI: A network user strives to maximize flow of a commodity through a capacitated network, while an ...
Optimal Stationing of US Army Forces in Korea
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2001-12)
Closing and realigning installations has long been a part of the United States (US) Army's reformation. Since 1988, more than 100 Army bases have been closed and 20 others significantly realigned within the US. Since the ...
Predicting battle outcomes with classification trees
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2001-12)
Historical combat data analysis is a way of understanding the factors affecting battle outcomes. Current studies mostly prefer simulations that are based on mathematical abstractions of battles. However, these abstractions ...
Scheduling the recruiting and MOS training of enlisted marines
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2001-09)
Non-infantry enlisted Marines progress through Recruit Training, basic infantry training at Marine Combat Training (MCT), and Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) training before finally reporting to their first unit for ...
Analysis, design, implementation and evaluation of graphical design tool to develop discrete event simulation models using event graphs and SIMKIT
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2001-09)
Discrete Event Simulation (DES) is one of the most widely used methodologies for Operations Research (OR) modeling and analysis. However, designing and implementing DES can be a time-consuming and error-prone task. This ...
Analysis of self-reported sleep patterns in a sample of US Navy Submariners using nonparametric statistics
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2001-09)
Fatigue contributes to increased accidents and mishaps and reductions in human performance. Inadequacies in the quality and quantity of sleep amongst US Navy submariners can have detrimental effects on command and control ...
Evaluation of combat service support logistics concepts for supplying a USMC Regimental Task Force
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2001-09)
One of the primary responsibilities of a Marine Corps Combat Service Support Element (CSSE) is to provide water, fuel, and ammunition requirements for the primary task forces and other Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) ...
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