The March Phalanx is now on the website here: http://www.mors.org/Publications/MOR-Journal
Articles in this issue include:
Search Plan for a Single Item in an Invderted T K-Deep Storage System by Mohamed Awwad and Jennifer Pazour
This work is motivated by sea basing, which will utilize floating distribution centers to provide customized orders to forces ashore. A unique feature of sea-based logistics (in comparison to traditional logistics) is the limited and highly constrained storage space. In addition, asset tracking technologies, like RFID, do not identify item locations to the granularity required for selective offloading in very high density environments aboard ships. Thus, this work analyzes search plans in very high density storage and finds that the search process in dense storage systems have high variability. A re-positioning policy that uses the open aisle locations as temporary storage locations is recommended.
Ratio Game on a Network by Alan Washburn
This paper deals with an abstract version of improvised explosive device (IED) war-fare. It is imagined to be a two-person zero-sum game where one side plants mines on the arcs of a road network, while the other side attempts to clear them and also must decide what route to take through the network. All of these activities take place over an in-definite but long time horizon. The game is solvable through a nonlinear program.
Understanding the Impact of Socioeconomic Factors on Navy Accessions by Bradley C. Intrater, Jonathan K. Alt, Samuel E. Buttrey, Jeffrey B. House, and Michael Evans
It has been reported that 71 percent of America’s youth, aged 17–24, are unqualified for military service. The health of the US economy is improving with increased employment opportunities in the private and public sectors. From 2000 to 2015, the percentage of Americans aged 251 with a bachelor’s degree increased from 12.2 to 14.9 percent. Military leadership is competing with civilian firms and universities to enlist qualified candidates and meet congressionally mandated annual accession goals in a shrinking market. Military recruiters can mitigate the negative impact on accessions goals by precisely identifying the most prolific areas for accessions and efficiently allocating their resources. Brad Intrater, Jon Alt, Sam Buttrey, and Jeff House developed and validated multivariate linear regression models and zero-inflated negative binomial (ZINB) models using open source socioeconomic data. Their models identify the factors driving recruitment and predict the number of accessions from a geographic area. The results of their work will enable military recruitment leadership to more efficiently and precisely position resources in multiple markets to maximize accessions per recruiter.