SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS LOGISTICS NETWORK DESIGN AND INVENTORY CONTROL USING EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS

摘要

Logistical inefficiencies and excessive resource demands are some of the issues caused by bad planning of Forward Operating Bases. Forward Operating Bases (FOB's) are temporary military contingency base camps established to support and facilitate tactical operations on foreign soil. The logistics model considers the relationships between various base camp components and optimizes the distance to be traveled by the on camp logistic vehicle for all the utilities (fuel, potable water, waste, etc.). Evolutionary Algorithms takes into account of all the base camp constraints and will be used to optimally distribute the resources required for the overall base. Changes in the subsystem constraints are appropriately added and solved simultaneously when a change is made to the base camp design. The model can satisfy all the base camp needs while keeping the overall system lean. The flexible logistics model facilitates the use of dynamic design processes in order to integrate with external simulation tools, making it possible to communicate with other system of system tools.