In the current warfighting environment, the military needs robust modeling and simulation (M&S) to support Irregular Warfare (IW) analysis across the range of tactical, operational, and strategic levels of warfare to help inform decisions concerning operations within the IW environment. In support of this need, the military requires a responsive family of Models, Methods, and Tools (MMT) able t...

In herd management, we face a hierarchy of decisions made at different levels with different time horizon, and the decisions made at different levels are mutually dependent. Furthermore, decisions have to be made without certainty about the future state of the system. If, for instance, a decision has to be made at the tactical level, it is necessary to assume some policy to be followed concerni...

Herd management is essentially decision making under uncertainty. The manager makes decisions without speciic knowledge of the future (and present) state of the system. Decisions made on the tactical level are generally more uncertain than the ones on the operational level. However, a tactical decision will have an innuence on the decisions made on the operational level through the timehorizon ...

This paper aims to suggest a risk budgeting approach that can enhance the asset allocation process of retirement reserve funds. The takes into consideration importance incorporating tactical decisions improve fund performance. significance this study lies in need adopt strong enables managers outperform strategic while avoiding excessive risk. article proposes methodology for measuring and allo...

Throughout human history, games have served an important role, allowing real life problems to be abstracted into a simplified environment where they can be explored and understood. Today, games continue to serve that role and are useful in a variety of fields of research and study, including machine learning and artificial intelligence. By researching ways to enable computers to solve the abstr...

Given the fluctuations of oil price in international markets and its effect on global economy, it is expected that gas industry and use of gas as an alternative energy, have become more important. Therefore, identification of strategic decisions in this industry has attracted increasing attention of managers and researchers. This study aims to identify and evaluate strategic decisions in the Na...

Abstract Supply Chain Management (SCM) in semiconductor manufacturing differs from many other SCM applications in that it has to simultaneously consider both long and short time scale stochasticity and nonlinearity. This paper presents a two-level hierarchical structure for SCM motivated by these considerations. Linear Programming (LP)-based Strategic Planning and Inventory Planning modules for...

We present basic building blocks of an agent that can use observable market conditions to characterize the microeconomic conditions of the market and predict future market trends. The agent can use this information to make both tactical decisions such as pricing and strategic decisions such as product mix and production planning. We develop methods that can learn dominant market conditions, suc...

In this paper, a hybrid genetic algorithm is proposed to solve a Capacitated Location-Routing Problem. The objective is to minimize the total cost of the distribution in a network composed of depots and customers, both depots and vehicles have limited capacities, each depot has a homogenous vehicle fleet and customers’ demands are known and must be satisfied. Solving this problem involves makin...