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A simulation model for military deployment

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Uǧur Z. Yildirim,

I. Sabuncuoǧlu,

Barbaros TanselAuthors Info & Claims

WSC '07: Proceedings of the 39th conference on Winter simulation: 40 years! The best is yet to come

Pages 1361 - 1369

Published: 09 December 2007 Publication History

Abstract

The Deployment Planning Problem (DPP) for military units may in general be defined as the problem of planning the movement of geographically dispersed military units from their home bases to their final destinations using different transportation assets and a multimodal transportation network while obeying the constraints of a time-phased force deployment data describing the movement requirements for troops and equipment. Our main contribution is to develop a GIS-based, object-oriented, loosely-coupled, modular, platform-independent, multi-modal and medium-resolution discrete event simulation model to test the feasibility of deployment scenarios. While our simulation model is not a panacea for all, it allows creation and testing the feasibility of a given scenario under stochastic conditions and can provide insights into potential outcomes in a matter of a few hours.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1516744.1516960

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WSC '07: Proceedings of the 39th conference on Winter simulation: 40 years! The best is yet to come

December 2007

2659 pages

ISBN:1424413060

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Jeff Tew

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IIE: Institute of Industrial Engineers
INFORMS-SIM: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences: Simulation Society
ASA: American Statistical Association
IEEE/SMC: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers: Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
SIGSIM: ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation and Modeling
NIST: National Institute of Standards and Technology
(SCS): The Society for Modeling and Simulation International

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Yildirim USabuncuoglu İTansel BBalcioglu AJefferson TFowler JIngalls R(2008)A design of experiments approach to military deployment planning problemProceedings of the 40th Conference on Winter Simulation10.5555/1516744.1516960(1234-1241)Online publication date: 7-Dec-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1516744.1516960

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