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Intratheater airlift delivers critical and time-sensitive supplies to deployed forces, but is it cost effective to use commercial, rather than organic Air Force, aircraft to supply this airlift?
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This paper describes a new approach and associated search schemes for optimization under uncertainty. Analysts can apply this method to a problem with a significantly larger number of decision variables, uncertain parameters, and uncertain scenarios.
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Spotlight on 2012 presents the highlights of RAND Europe's research and other activities in 2012. We describe these in the context of the 'life cycle' of a policy issue, to show the stages at which our research and analysis supports policymakers.
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This exploratory study investigates the characteristics of publications cited on clinical guidelines, and the funding sources they acknowledge, in order to better understand how research is translated into changes in policy and practice.
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RAND Europe evaluated the National Institute for Health Research Leadership Programme to help the English Department of Health consider the extent to which the programme has helped to foster wider research aims and extract lessons for the future.
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Describes a method for designing a sample of Air Force personnel to participate in an online survey of cultural attitudes.
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A more detailed description of the linear-programming approach in solving the traveling salesman problem that that presented in P-510. The present study considers the example discussed by L. L. Barachet ("Graphic Solution of the Traveling Salesman Pr...
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This paper was prepared as an entry for inclusion in the forthcoming book Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science, which is being published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. It describes the many contributions of RAND researchers to t...
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The consensus development conference method developed by the National Institutes of Health in the United States has been adopted and modified by a number of countries.
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This Note, reprinted from OR/MS Today, Vol. 15, December 1988, reviews the development of operations research and systems analysis at The RAND Corporation for the two decades after its founding in 1948.
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This Note, reprinted from OR/MS Today, Vol. 15, December 1988, reviews the development of operations research and policy analysis at The RAND Corporation from 1968 to 1988.
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This paper is the text of an invited talk presented at the 25th Joint National Meeting of The Institute of Management Sciences and the Operations Research Society of America.
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We present a method — using queueing theory and integer linear programming — for scheduling patrol cars so that specified service standards are met at each hour of the day.
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Three equivalent linear programming formulations are developed for the problem of assigning sanitation men in a district to shifts and days of the week. Payroll costs are balanced against the cost of uncollected refuse. One formulation allows probl...
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A discussion of appropriate transformations that effectively reduce nonlinear zero-one formulations to equivalent linear zero-one formulations. The transformation is applied to a particular type of investment problem in which the high-risk investment...
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A consideration of three probable trends in operations research (systems analysis) in a talk before the 22nd Military Operations Research Symposium: (1) An increasing concern for the web of relationships linking the problems of national security and...
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A description and listing of the experimental code used to obtain the computational experience reported in RM-5644-PR.
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An introduction to operations research for an anthology on "The Uses and the Spirit of the Mathematical Sciences," sponsored by The Conference Board of Mathematical Sciences.
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Presents the experimental code used to obtain the computational experience reported in two recent RAND publications on linear programming. The code was developed to test the usefulness of certain innovations applied to a simple Balasian algorithm. ...
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The use of linear programming algorithms for solving Air Force stockage problems such as the following: design of a mobility kit of reparables; single multi-weapon base stockage of reparables, recoverables and war reserve supplements, and EOQ items...
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