𝔖 Bobbio Scriptorium
✦   LIBER   ✦

Allocation of carrier-based attack aircraft using non-linear programming

✍ Scribed by Edward W. Rice; Jerome Brac Ken; Arthur W. Pennington


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1971
Tongue
English
Weight
680 KB
Volume
18
Category
Article
ISSN
0894-069X

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


The paper presents the formulation and several solutions of a model for allocating a fixed number of aircraft to carriers and to missions. The amount of damage that can be inflicted is maximized. A nonseparable concave nonlinear objective function expresses diminishing marginal damage. Linear constraints on aircraft, carrier space, and aircraft availability for missions are included. The model is solved using the sequential unconstrained minimization technique (SUMT). The model is presented in terms of a scenario. Several different exponential damage functions are treated, and S-shaped damage functions are discussed.