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The Simulation of a Large-Scale Military Activity
Author(s) -
Murray A. Geisler
Publication year - 1959
Publication title -
management science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.954
H-Index - 255
eISSN - 1526-5501
pISSN - 0025-1909
DOI - 10.1287/mnsc.5.4.359
Subject(s) - operations research , computer science , scale (ratio) , industrial engineering , management science , systems engineering , engineering management , engineering , quantum mechanics , physics
This paper was originally given at the Fifth International Meeting of the Institute of Management Sciences. It describes the first experiment of the RAND Logistics Systems Laboratory, which was concerned with testing a series of logistics policies in a detailed man-machine simulation. The paper describes the policies, the elements simulated, the operation of the experiment, and its results. It also briefly mentions the second or current experiment of the Laboratory.

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