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A LARGE‐SCALE PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT MODEL FOR THE NAVY *
Author(s) -
Liang Timothy T.,
Thompson Theodore J.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
decision sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.238
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1540-5915
pISSN - 0011-7315
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1987.tb01519.x
Subject(s) - navy , computer science , variety (cybernetics) , operations research , process (computing) , scale (ratio) , duty , operations management , aeronautics , engineering , artificial intelligence , law , physics , quantum mechanics , political science , operating system
The U.S. Navy has been trying for years to develop a model to automate its personnel assignment process The requirement of rotating navy personnel frequently between sea duty and shore duty in accordance with multiple policies makes modeling efforts difficult. However, without a model to optimize assignments with regard to multiple policies, navy managers do not know the real impact of personnel assignments. This limits their ability to make effective decisions. This paper summarizes our effort to develop a large‐scale network model for the navy's assignment problem. The navy has accepted this model for implementation, replacing the current manual assignment process. The approach in this paper can be generalized to a wide variety of perosnnel assignment problems.