Date of Award
3-2001
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science
Department
Department of Operational Sciences
First Advisor
Raymond R. Hill, PhD
Abstract
Modern Times' bring change in all areas of life. Even the rate of change has changed, and is still changing to increase it's enormous speed even more. Newer and more challenging questions face the military analysts everyday putting a question mark at the end of their last answer. Recently, the question of how to structure a robust air force to meet the requirements of competing, uncertain future scenarios has been keeping them busy. The new world order does not tolerate only being able to respond to a single scenario anymore, which once was considered a hard problem. Who knows what comes next? In this thesis, we propose a robust optimization methodology to provide an answer to the multi-scenario optimization problem. The methodology employs a meta-heuristic, Scatter Search, to guide the search of the multi-scenario solution space obtained by the evaluations of CFAM, the model currently used to respond to single theater scenario objectives. A Visual Basic
AFIT Designator
AFIT-GOR-ENS-01M-05
DTIC Accession Number
ADA390989
Recommended Citation
Bulut, Gokay, "Robust Multi-Scenario Optimization of an Air Expeditionary Force Structure Applying Scatter Search to the Combat Forces Assessment Model" (2001). Theses and Dissertations. 4581.
https://scholar.afit.edu/etd/4581