- Title
- A mathematical programming based decision support tool for force allocation
- Creator
- Egudo, R.; Boland, Natashia; Gan, H.
- Relation
- 18th National Conference of the Australian Society for Operations Research. Proceedings of the 18th National Conference of the Australian Society for Operations Research (Perth, W.A. 26-28 September, 2005) p. 40-49
- Relation
- http://www.asor.org.au
- Publisher
- Australian Society for Operations Research
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2005
- Description
- This paper describes a mathematical programming model, *ForceOp*, which has been developed to assist army officers in the process of allocating force elements to different objectives of a mission. The model uses the concept of force elements generating effects to achieve objectives. It requires users to state objectives and then specify the effects required to achieve each objective. The force elements are then rated according to their ability to create the effects required in each objective. *ForceOp* is used to allocate force elements to the objectives in order to maximise the effectiveness of the whole deployment. The model can provide several solutions if required. User-defined allocations can be evaluated and compared. *ForceOp* complements a human decision-maker by accounting for the effects of many interacting decisions simultaneously.
- Subject
- force allocation; mathematics; programming
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/940132
- Identifier
- uon:12955
- Language
- eng
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