Generalized optimization modeling for defense capital planning and equipment replacement
By:  Gregorio Ameyugo
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
Description: Recurring issues for Navy and DoD analysts are decisions on the upgrade, purchase, and      retirement of equipment with high capital cost and long useful life. Since the PHOENIX model      was developed in the late eighties a number of theses addressing different equipment      procurement and modernization problems have been written at the Naval Postgraduate      School. Those models have a common thread of purpose data, and methods that suggest the      possibility of building a common model subsuming those previous efforts. The model      developed is a mixed- integer linear program written in GAMS, and its most appealing      characteristic is the spreadsheet application that allows the user to enter data, solve the model,      analyze its output, enter user feedback in the process of finding a new solution, and also to      manage a collection of candidate solutions. With this approach difficulties are hidden from the      user who interacts only with the spreadsheet and does not have to build his own model. The      combination of a generic model and the visual programming capability of the spreadsheet      provides the user with a tool to accomplish more complete, complex and sophisticated      analysis.
Notes: Thesis advisor(s): Gordon H. Bradley.

"September 1996."

Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research) Naval Postgraduate School, September 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 61).

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Spanish Navy author.

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