The US Army faces a significant burden in planning sustainment operations. Currently, logistics planners must manually evaluate potential emplacement sites to determine their terrain suitability. Sites subject to rainfall-runoff responses such as flooding are ill-suited for emplacements, but evaluating the likelihood of such responses requires significant time and expertise. To reduce the time ...

The defense personnel engaged in logistics planning need tools that allow them to evaluate a plan and efficiently update this information as the situation evolves. This paper reports on the work that IET performed as part of DARPA’s Ultra*Log project to design a probabilistic reasoning algorithm for dynamic plan evaluation that conforms to the stringent performance requirements of Ultra*Log’s m...

1. This paper addresses some issues that arise in the planning and design of logistics systems when the environment in which they are to be operated cannot be modeled accurately with certainty. The paper describes the analytical difficulties introduced by explicitly considering uncertainty, and suggests possible modeling steps that may result in more efficient, uncertainty-friendly plans.

Stratified case-based reasoning (SCBR) is a technique in which case abstractions are used to assist case retrieval, matching, and adaptation. Previous work has shown that SCBR can significantly decrease the computational expense required for retrieval, matching, and adaptation under a variety of different problem conditions. This paper extends this work to two new domains: a problem in combinat...

Unified Demand Planning process proposed is an intention to centralize demand planning activities for cascaded supply chain partners. It is a collaboration process based on electronic logistics.

The German Collaborative Research Centre 637 ‘Autonomous Cooperating Logistic Processes’ tries to make a paradigm shift from central planning to autonomous control in the field of logistics. Among other things, autonomous routing algorithms based on internet routing protocols are developed. The Distributed Logistics Routing Protocol (DLRP) was originally designed for transport networks to match...