Simulation Study of an Optimization Model for Surface Nuclear Accession Planning.

摘要

This thesis examines a nontraditional approach to a manpower planning problem. This approach combines two operations research methodologies: simulation and optimization. The combined approach, which is referred to as SIMOP, models the manpower planning problem as a linear program and, through simulation techniques, allows the input data to be random, based on the experimentation performed in this study, the average results from the SIMOP model can be quite different from the result obtained using a traditional optimization model. Also presented are applications of the SIMOP model to military manpower planning. Keywords: Manpower; Optimization; Simulation; Manpower planning model; Surface nuclear officers; Linear program; Theses.