A multi-objective simulation–optimization for a joint problem of strategic facility location, workforce planning, and capacity allocation: A case study in the Royal …

HH Turan, SD Kahagalage, F Jalalvand… - Expert Systems with …, 2021 - Elsevier
The availability of assets crucially depends on the interplay between the facility locations,
workforce planning, and capacity allocation. Therefore, in this paper, we model and solve a …

Military facility location problems: A brief survey

M Karatas, E Yakıcı, N Razi - Research Anthology on Military and …, 2021 - igi-global.com
In the past decades, facility location problems have attracted much attention among
researchers and practitioners from different disciplines. Among those problems, location …

Improved social spider algorithm for large scale optimization

E Baş, E Ülker - Artificial intelligence review, 2021 - Springer
Heuristic algorithms can give optimal solutions for low, middle, and large scale optimization
problems in an acceptable time. The social spider algorithm (SSA) is one of the recent meta …

Optimizing location and size of rural schools in Chile

F Araya, R Dell, P Donoso, V Marianov… - International …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The C hilean Ministry of Education oversees preschool, primary, and secondary education in
both urban and rural areas. Many parts of C hile are sparsely populated and there are …

Cost-efficiency analysis of weapon system portfolios

J Kangaspunta, J Liesiö, A Salo - European Journal of Operational …, 2012 - Elsevier
Decisions about the acquisition and maintenance of military equipment serve to build long-
term capabilities in preparation of military conflicts. Typically, these decisions involve large …

Decomposition-based evolutionary algorithm for large scale constrained problems

E Sayed, D Essam, R Sarker, S Elsayed - Information Sciences, 2015 - Elsevier
Cooperative Coevolutionary algorithms (CC) have been successful in solving large scale
optimization problems. The performance of CC can be improved by decreasing the number …

Self-adaptive differential evolution incorporating a heuristic mixing of operators

SM Elsayed, RA Sarker, DL Essam - Computational optimization and …, 2013 - Springer
A considerable number of differential evolution variants have been proposed in the last few
decades. However, no variant was able to consistently perform over a wide range of test …

Military applications of location analysis

JE Bell, SE Griffis - Applications of location analysis, 2015 - Springer
Over time, the decision-making needs of military commanders have had a strong influence
upon the development of the field of operations research and analytic problem solving. The …

[PDF][PDF] Optimizing Marine security guard assignments

MD Enoka - 2011 - core.ac.uk
ABSTRACT The Marine Corps Embassy Security Group (MCESG) assigns 1,500 Marine
Security Guards (MSGs) to 149 embassy detachments annually. While attempting to fulfill …

A FITRADEOFF-BASED APPROACH FOR STRATEGIC DECISIONS ON MILITARY BUDGET

AG Santos, LAM Pessôa, CMM Mota, EA Frej - Pesquisa Operacional, 2023 - SciELO Brasil
This paper presents an actual application of the FITradeoff method to support strategic
decisions on military budgets. Using Optimization Techniques and a particular Multicriteria …