Fleet mix planning in the U.S. Coast Guard
Subtitle: issues and challenges for DSS*
By: Hemant K. Bhargava
Contributors: Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.). Dept. of Administrative Sciences
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 23
Subjects: Military planning; Decision support systems
Other titles: NPS-AS-92-001.
Description: Fleet mix planning in the U.S. Coast Guard involves determining a combination of naval assets      best suited to meet the Coast Guard's future mission requirements while satisfying various      resource constraints. In this paper, I describe the problem, and present and discuss certain      challenges it raises in the field of decision support systems (DSS). The fleet mix planning      problem is fairly unstructured, has a long-term planning horizon and impact, and there is      uncertainty about future mission objectives and demand for the fleet's services. As such, I      believe, it is a classical application suited to the use of DSS technology, according to accepted      definitions of a DSS. However, an examination of DSS theory and technology reveals that      current DSS theories and implementations do not adequately address this problem. Thus, the      fleet mix planning problem raises several research challenges in the design and implementation      of decision support systems. In this paper, I discuss the problem and these challenges in detail,      and propose that fleet mix planning could be a useful benchmark problem for DSS.
Notes: Title from cover.

"NPS-AS-92-001."

"October 1991."

AD A242 879.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 21-23).

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