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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Operational planning"”.
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Operational planning for multiple heterogeneous unmanned aerial vehicles in three dimensions
… integrate each vehicle's capabilities when planning the operations. This thesis focuses on planning operations for multiple, heterogeneous UAVs for the purpose of monitoring Earth's phenomena through data collection. The planning is done for flight in three dimensions. The problem also …
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Decision support for the operational planning phase of the transit network planning problem
The planning problem underlying the design of a transit system is known in the literature as the transit network planning problem (TNPP). Due to the high degree of complexity of decisions pertaining to the transit network planning process, the TNPP has traditionally been partitioned into strategic, …
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The Culture of Conflict: Assessing the Effectiveness of Cultural Analysis in Operational Planning
With the changing dynamic of warfare in the post-Cold War world, different tools are being used to accomplish national security objectives and fulfill foreign policy goals. In the face of anti-terrorism campaigns that have led to violent and virulent insurgencies, the United States has looked to a …
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Lot Sizing at the Operational Planning and Shop Floor Scheduling Levels of the Decision Hierarchy of Various Production Systems
… lot sizing and its applications in the areas of operational planning and shop floor scheduling and control. Lot sizing enables a proper loading of requisite number of jobs on the machines in order to optimize the performance of an underlying production system. We address lot sizing problems that …
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Improving building function: an analysis of design management processes and operational planning in the development of hospital food service systems.
… relation to large, complex multi-user buildings, operational planning and design processes will assume greater importance than ever before. Given that increasing complexity is likely to lead to increasing specialism and differentiation amongst the main contributing parties in a construction …
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Incorporation of tropical cyclone avoidance into automated ship scheduling
… impact of adding anticipated TC positions in an operational planning tool called the Replenishment At Sea Planner. Various scenarios are used to test the impact of different geographic representations of the TC obstacle in CLF operational planning. Open-ocean scenarios explore TC impact in ocean …
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Operation and assessment of wind energy on power system reliability evaluation
… The investigation includes long-term system planning and short-term operational planning on reliability evaluation taking into accounts different penetration levels of wind power. This thesis presents a Wind-Hydro Cooperation (WHC) method for reducing the effects of wind power fluctuations on …
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Unifying Strategic Military Force Design and Operational Warfighting: A Stochastic Game Approach
Military strategic investment and operational warfighting are necessarily intertwined, yet it is quite challenging to integrate these two levels analytically. In this thesis, we provide a framework to unify these levels through stochastic games and a force design model. We start with the …
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A procedural comparison of combat tactics: a simulation approach
Naval operational planning is complex because it is dependent on uncertain future combat conditions. Effective decision making is directly related to the validity of assumptions regarding future combat scenarios and the appropriateness of selected procedures. A two phase procedure for comparing …
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Navy Capabilities and Mobilization Plan (NCMP) Annex Q - Health Services Support: resource and end strength implications
… Mobilization Plan (NCMP), used in support of DoD operational planning. It details the revision process, explaining the factors influencing the process, including the changes in medical doctrine, and the organizations involved. Data were obtained through interviews with key Navy planning and …
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Operationalizing demand forecasts in the warehouse
Demand planning affects the subsequent business activities including distribution center operational planning and management. Today's competitive environment requires distribution centers to rapidly respond to changes in the quantity and nature of demand. For the distribution center, accurate …
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Benefits, costs, and trade-offs : strategic and operational decision making in the multi-mission U.S. Coast Guard : a first look
… Guard to develop, communicate, and modify its operational planning to achieve service level goals across multiple mission areas.
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Identifying and Prioritizing Essential Healthcare Services for A Private Start-Up Healthcare Hub in Laxmipasha, Bangladesh
… model for effective healthcare investment, operational efficiency, and long-term sustainability in low-resource settings.</p> <p>Keywords: Healthcare service prioritization, rural health systems, service delivery, Laxmipasha, Bangladesh, data-driven strategy, healthcare management, …
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Gestão documental e tomada de decisão em empresas privadas
… paper is to present and discuss the process of planning, organization, storage, and management of business files, note that the perception of the employer in respect to the memory of the company. Present a theoretical review of key concepts and standards adopted internationally in file …
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Travel behaviors during a public health biological emergency requiring points of dispensing
… identified travel decisions as a gap in current operational planning, with little understanding of the types of travel decisions that people make or how they make those decisions. This dissertation develops a behavioral discrete choice model that predicts the decisions of if people go to PODs, at …
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Employee Engagement in the U.S. Army Cyber Command
… and interviews conducted with employees from operational planning directorates. The 5 employee engagement theories were the expectancy theory, jobs demands-resources model, leader member exchange, motivation-hygiene theory, and self-determination theory. Employee engagement in the U.S. Army …
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Robust and Data-Efficient Metamodel-Based Approaches for Online Analysis of Time-Dependent Systems
… quantification is a key to success for operational planning of TDSs in real world, however, research on how to construct adequate error bounds for GPR-based metamodeling is sparse. Inspired by the challenges encountered in GPR-based analyses of two representative stochastic TDSs, i.e., …
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The Interaction of a Transient Forward Axial Disturbance Flow With a Rotor
… guidance for the design, optimization, and operational planning of advanced aerial mobility solutions aimed at minimizing noise pollution and enhancing public acceptance.</p>
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Communication planning for development: an operational framework
This thesis is concerned with communication planning for national development: specifically with the problem of utilising a developing country's communication resources to support an integrated programme of social, political and economic mobilisation. The research which it describes sets out to …
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Evaluating the SFLC Industrial Operations Organization and delivery of depot maintenance to stakeholders through a systems thinking Approach
… the surface fleet requisite flexibility in operational planning and execution of its mission. The qualitative analysis suggests that the U.S. Coast Guard should explore a self-sustaining depot-maintenance posture due to the U.S. Navy's increased dependency on private commercial, industrial …
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