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Optimization Model for Planning of Experiments in Test and Evaluation Process  

Cho, Namsuk (Department of Military Operations Research, Korea National Defense University)
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Journal of Applied Reliability / v.18, no.2, 2018 , pp. 173-183 More about this Journal
Abstract
Purpose: It is critical to design a set of experiments in Test and Evaluation Process for a weapon system. Because there is no sufficient resources in real-world, one must choose a subset of experiments which is considered to be more important. Methods: We introduce an optimization model for choosing the subset of experiments by considering a priority of experimental variable and level and restrictions of resources. We describe in detail how we construct objective function and constraints which must be a right realization of our logic and assumption. Conclusion: Since our optimization model turns out to be computationally difficult to solve, we introduce an algorithm for reducing the size of problem. Various computational results follows.
Keywords
Test and Evaluation; Optimization Model; Design of Experiments; Integer Programming;
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