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An Optimal Mission Assignment Model for Determining a Minimum Required Level of Nuclear-powered Submarines

원자력 추진 잠수함 최소 소요량 결정을 위한 임무 할당 최적화 모델

  • Lee, Dong-Gyun (Department of National Defense Management, Korea Naval Academy) ;
  • Park, Seung-Joo (Department of National Defense Management, Korea Naval Academy) ;
  • Lee, Jinho (Department of National Defense Management, Korea Naval Academy)
  • 이동균 (해군사관학교 국방경영학과) ;
  • 박승주 (해군사관학교 국방경영학과) ;
  • 이진호 (해군사관학교 국방경영학과)
  • Received : 2017.09.25
  • Accepted : 2018.02.23
  • Published : 2018.04.05
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Abstract

This study first analyzes the necessity and the validity of procuring nuclear-powered submarines, and presents an optimization model as an integer program to determine a minimum required level of them. For an optimization model, we characterize a submarine's mission, ability and availability, and apply these to the model by constraints. Then, we assign the submarines available currently and the nuclear-powered submarines, that will be newly introduced, to the predefined missions over the planning time periods in a way that the number of nuclear-powered submarines be minimized. Randomly generated missions are employed to solve a mission assignment problem, and the results show that our integer programming model provides an optimal solution as designed, and this can provide a guideline for other weapon system procurement processes.

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