A simulation model for military deployment
Date
2007Source Title
Proceedings of the 2007 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2007
Print ISSN
0891-7736
Publisher
IEEE
Pages
1361 - 1369
Language
English
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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 GISbased, object-oriented, loosely-coupled, modular, platformindependent, 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.
Keywords
Discrete event simulationMilitary applications
Telecommunication services
Deployment planning
Deployment scenarios
Discrete-event simulation models
Home bases
Military deployments
Military units
Multi-modal
Multimodal transportation
Object-oriented
Potential outcomes
Simulation modelling
Stochastic models