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Issued May 1, 1944, by Requirements and Allocations Control
Topic: Food allocations
Thesis advisors, Richard B. Doyle, John E. Mutty
Topics: MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS, ALLOCATIONS, DECENTRALIZATION
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Thesis advisors, Richard B. Doyle, John E. Mutty
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NAL holdings: 1944 (pub. Feb. 7)-
Topics: Food allocations, Food supply United States
The emergency management program in Washington State is vulnerable because it has no sustainable and stable funding source. This thesis identifies potential state and local funding and allocation methods that can possibly stabilize and sustain Washington State's emergency management programs. Three case studies are conducted in which the funding source, allocation method, and policy strategy are analyzed for each case. Various funding methods can be applied to emergency management programs in...
Topics: emergency management, funding, allocations, Washington State
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Boyle, W. S.; Howard, B. T.; James, D. B
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The conclusions reached from the arguments in the main body of the text are summarized here for convenience of the reader. The current situation of the support for Apollo from the unmanned program can be stated as follows: 1. Less than a satisfactory minimum of design input information will be available. 2. Little design modification data will be obtained in time. 3. Definitive design confirmation data, coupled with a very conservative Apollo design, is a requirement. 4. The main defect is a...
Topics: ALLOCATIONS, NASA PROGRAMS, UNIVERSITY PROGRAM, BUDGETING
Topic modeling is a generalization of clustering that posits that observations (words in a document) are generated by multiple latent factors (topics), as opposed to just one. The increased representational power comes at the cost of a more challenging unsupervised learning problem for estimating the topic-word distributions when only words are observed, and the topics are hidden. This work provides a simple and efficient learning procedure that is guaranteed to recover the parameters for a...
Topics: DTIC Archive, CALIFORNIA UNIV IRVINE, *ALGORITHMS, ALLOCATIONS, CLUSTERING, METHOD OF MOMENTS
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Lokos, William A.; Stauf, Ric
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This paper documents a parametric study of various aircraft wing-load test features that affect the quality of the resultant derived shear, bending-moment, and torque strain-gage load equations. The effect of the following on derived strain-gage equation accuracy are compared: single-point loading compared with distributed loading, variation in applied test load magnitude, number of applied load cases, and wing-box-only compared with control-surface loading. The subject of this study is an...
Topics: MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS, UNIVERSITY PROGRAM, NASA PROGRAMS, PROJECT MANAGEMENT, ALLOCATIONS,...
The Naval Postgraduate School is required to report activity costs and set tuition rates annually. The requirement to adequately identify and charge appropriate tuition rates for Naval Postgraduate School programs is critical for complete cost recovery. This thesis reviews the Naval Postgraduate School product lines and applies Activity-Based Costing Theory to provide management with a standard to gauge program and price growth. All Naval Postgraduate School costs are assigned into service and...
Topics: DTIC Archive, NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA, *COST MODELS, ALLOCATIONS, MANAGEMENT, RATES,...
Accurate measures for technology adoption and transition are needed to provide objective evaluation systems for DoD acquisition programs. Currently, the DoD uses cost, schedule, and performance to evaluate the success of their programs. Research from this area of study suggests that although cost, schedule, and performance have their benefits, these metrics do not give an entirely accurate representation of success. A multidimensional framework involving additional measures by which to evaluate...
Topics: DTIC Archive, NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA, *RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, THESES, TRANSITIONS,...
As a piece of critical infrastructure, the Internet brings both benefits and security concerns. Recent cyber-security episodes such as route hijacks and Denial-of-Service attacks might have been mitigated and prevented with better knowledge of the network s logical topology; i.e., router nodes and links. Current production public active mapping systems; e.g., Ark, Rocketfuel, and iPlane, produce valuable inferences of the Internet s topology, as well as facilitating longitudinal analysis. We...
Topics: DTIC Archive, NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA, *NETWORK TOPOLOGY, ALLOCATIONS, BENEFITS,...
This paper outlines a strategy for tracking evasive objects in discrete space using game theory to allocate sensor resources. One or more searchers have to allocate the effort among the discrete cells to maximize the object detection probability within a finite time horizon or minimize the expected search time to achieve the desired detection probability under a false alarm constraint. We review the standard formulations under a sequential decision setting for finding stationary objects. Then...
Topics: DTIC Archive, NEW ORLEANS UNIV LA, *ALLOCATIONS, *GAME THEORY, *TRACKING, DETECTORS, SEQUENCES,...
Memory size has long limited large-scale applications on high-performance computing (HPC) systems. Since compute nodes frequently do not have swap space, physical memory often limits problem sizes. Increasing core counts per chip and power density constraints, which limit the number of DIMMs per node, have exacerbated this problem. Further DRAM constitutes a significant portion of overall HPC system cost. Therefore, instead of adding more DRAM to the nodes, mechanisms to manage memory usage...
Topics: DTIC Archive, LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LAB CA, *MEMORY DEVICES, SYMPOSIA, ALLOCATIONS, DATA...
An active stream of research is devoted to the design of polynomial approximation algorithms for the fair allocation of indivisible goods. Central to this field is the MaxMin Allocation problem, for which there is a significant gap between known approximation and inapproximability results. Closing this gap is a stimulating challenge. To this end, we consider a regular version of MaxMin Allocation where each agent must receive exactly k goods for a given integer k. We call this problem...
Topics: DTIC Archive, UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI LA SAPIENZA ROME (ITALY), *MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS, ALLOCATIONS,...
Consider the problem of protecting endangered species by selecting patches of land to be used for conservation purposes. Typically, the availability of patches changes over time, and recommendations must be made dynamically. This is a challenging prototypical example of a sequential optimization problem under uncertainty in computational sustainability. Existing techniques do not scale to problems of realistic size. In this paper, we develop an efficient algorithm for adaptively making...
Topics: DTIC Archive, CALIFORNIA INST OF TECH PASADENA, *CONSERVATION, ALLOCATIONS, ENDANGERED SPECIES,...
The purpose of this paper is to provide brief sketches of a variety of issues for consideration by the National Institute of Education as new or continued initiatives in future planning. These issues are categorized under four general areas of concern as follows: equity issues, impact issues, response issues, and measurement issues. Two caveats must be mentioned at the outset. First, these four issue areas should by no means be construed as mutually exclusive. The categorizations herein stated...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Hyman,James B, RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CALIF, *EDUCATION, *FINANCE, COSTS, ALLOCATIONS
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According to Heisenberg's uncertainty relation, in quantum mechanics it is not possible to determine, simultaneously, exact values for the position and the momentum of a material system. Calculating the mean value of the Hamiltonian operator with the aid of exact analytic Gaussian wave packet solutions, these uncertainties cause an energy contribution additional to the classical energy of the system. For the harmonic oscillator, e.g., this nonclassical energy represents the ground state energy....
Topics: MANAGEMENT PLANNING, PAYLOAD INTEGRATION, PROJECT MANAGEMENT, SPACE STATION PAYLOADS, SPACEBORNE...
The United States Army and the United States Marine Corps currently use Combat XXI as their premier computer simulation for estimating the effects of the introduction of changes to unit composition and equipment on the battlefield. It is a time consuming model to produce and run, in that it represents very detailed and intricate interactions. Another similar, but less detailed computer simulation is the Dynamic Allocation of Fires and Sensors (DAFS). Instead of modeling the explicit...
Topics: DTIC Archive, NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA, *ALLOCATIONS, *COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION,...
The setting for the spectrum allocation problems that we are currently considering consists of n tasks (i.e. flight tests). Each task has a bandwidth requirement, and a length. Thus each test can be thought of as a rectangle, with the vertical height of the rectangle being the bandwidth requirement. The scheduling space is a larger rectangle space, with height equal to the total spectrum available and length equal to the time period to be scheduled (e.g. a day). In order to avoid interference,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Kalyanasundaram, Bala, PITTSBURGH UNIV PA, *SPECTRA, *ALLOCATIONS, ALGORITHMS,...
This paper describes investigation of algorithms that generate vehicle and task assignments for autonomous UAVs in cooperative missions. In previous work many algorithms have been examined to solve the problem of assignment of autonomous UAVs to tasks based on their ability to perform those tasks. Because of the complexity of this problem, these algorithms have been based on heuristic solutions to the problem.
Topics: DTIC Archive, Rasmussen, Steven, VERIDIAN DAYTON OH, *ALGORITHMS, *CONTROL, *DRONES, SCENARIOS,...
As basic policy NASA believes that colleges and universities should be encouraged to participate in the nation's space and aeronautics program to the maximum extent practicable. The Office of University Affairs (OUA) serves as a focal point for NASA's relationships with colleges and universities. One of its roles is to provide information on the NASA University Program. The present document is designed to serve several purposes and a wide range of audiences from private individuals to NASA...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), NASA PROGRAMS, UNIVERSITIES, UNIVERSITY PROGRAM, ALLOCATIONS,...
In simultaneous learning two verbal lists are interlaced for study, with each tested separately. In the present experiments simultaneous learning was used as a means of determining the conditions under which study time or learning resources might be reallocated between lists. One of the lists was called the standard list and it remained constant across the conditions of each experiment. The other list, the variable list, was manipulated to produce differences in its difficulty. If performance...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Underwood,Benton J, NORTHWESTERN UNIV EVANSTON ILL DEPT OF PSYCHOLOGY, *LEARNING,...
A telecommunication network is composed of a number of nodes. Each node can be either a terminal host or a web cache location. Objects are downloaded throughout the network among the nodes. An object can represent either a file or any other resource to be shared (e.g. machine time). For memory saving and for safety reasons, each object is composed of a number of portions and not all the portions are located within the same node, because no node should have the complete knowledge of each object....
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENOA UNIV (ITALY), *NODES, *NETWORK ARCHITECTURE, ROUTING, INTERNET, COMMUNICATIONS...
In this thesis, we develop a mixed-integer, linear optimization model to guide the resourcing of submarine maintenance conducted by the U.S. Navy s two submarine tenders in the Fifth and Seventh Fleets. We assume maintenance demands are known over a given planning horizon, e.g., one month. Inputs to the model include travel times and costs for fly-away teams and tenders to move to where the maintenance is needed. Each maintenance demand can be divided into tasks with characteristics such as:...
Topics: DTIC Archive, NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA, *MAINTENANCE, *OPTIMIZATION, *SUBMARINES,...
An important element of military production cost is the overhead cost component. At the elemental level, overhead costs represent costs that are indirect - in other words, costs that cannot be unambiguously assigned to more than one product. To the extent that detailed cost accounting can make reasonable allocations of these costs, they are unimportant. However, many of the contractors that produce military hardware also produce similar hardware for commercial applications within the same...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Giffin,Robert B, TEMPLE UNIV PHILADELPHIA PA, *CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION, *INDIRECT...
Nation building, the simultaneous allocation of economic aid and military assistance in conflict environments, has cost the world over $3 trillion in the last half century. This project uses a theoretically-based empirical model to quantify the effect of nation building initiatives on GDP per capita growth. The research considers how the characteristics of conflict zones and the interaction of diverse types of both military assistance and economic aid impact the development process. The primary...
Topics: DTIC Archive, NAVAL ACADEMY ANNAPOLIS MD, *BUILDINGS, *ECONOMICS, ALLOCATIONS, ECONOMIC IMPACT,...
Tower-based surveillance systems have been employed by the U.S. military to enhance intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities in Iraq and Afghanistan. We consider a scenario wherein two surveillance towers are installed in separate locations; however, the surveillance team does not have enough operators to operate both towers to their capacity. Two strategies can be used to operate these two towers: stationary and dynamic. We formulate a two-person nonzero-sum game to analyze...
Topics: DTIC Archive, NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA, *OPTIMIZATION, *MANPOWER, *SURVEILLANCE,...
Defence and security organizations are increasingly faced with uncertain and dynamic global security environments, which are ever more ill-defined, unpredictable, and time pressured. Often highly structured in nature, command and control (C2) in these organizations may not traditionally allow for the adaptability and flexibility required in these complex environments. In response, models of more agile, decentralized organizations such as Edge organizations (EO) have been proposed (e.g., Alberts...
Topics: DTIC Archive, DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT TORONTO (CANADA), *ORGANIZATIONS, ADAPTATION,...
This report will examine the origins of construction risk, how to identify and classify it, and make recommendations on how to treat it. A series of risk sharing guidelines will be presented which can be applied to the allocation process. The purpose of this report is to show that a rational, systematic approach must be used to deal with risk in construction contracting. One such structured approach used to quantify and assess construction risk is presented in detail. Three of the more...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Babchyck, Bruce C, FLORIDA UNIV GAINESVILLE, *RISK, *CONTRACTS, *CONSTRUCTION,...
We consider a three-step three-player complete information Colonel Blotto game in this paper, in which the first two players fight against a common adversary. Each player is endowed with certain amount of resources at the beginning of the game, and the number of battlefields on which a player and the adversary fights is specified. The first two players are allowed to form a coalition if it improves their payoffs. In the first stage, the first two players may add battlefields and incur costs. In...
Topics: DTIC Archive, CALIFORNIA UNIV BERKELEY DEPT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCES, *GAME...
A two-sample, two-stage non-parametric estimation problem is studied. The parameter phi phi(F, G) under consideration is estimable (i.e., there exists an unbiased estimator which is a function of independent observations from two populations with cumulative distribution functions F(X) and G(Y). (Hence, it is called a two-sample problem.) The functions F(X) and G(Y) will be restricted to be members of a specified class, D, of pairs of cumulative distribution functions, described in the context....
Topics: DTIC Archive, Yen, Elizabeth Y, MINNESOTA UNIV MINNEAPOLIS, *NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS,...
IPv4 addresses are a scarce resource with available allocations nearing exhaustion. DoD and government agencies were mandated to transition to IPv6 for greater security and flexibility. The transition to IPv6 faces a series of challenges associated with protecting the network. Among many defensive challenges associated with IPv6 is the inability to accurately identify and understand the network s router-level topology. Providing an accurate IPv6 topology map is needed for security, situational...
Topics: DTIC Archive, NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA, *NETWORKS, *TOPOLOGY, ACCURACY, ALLOCATIONS,...
In an iNET telemetry network, Link Manager (LM) dynamically allocates capacity to radio links to achieve desired QoS guarantees. Under the T&E S&T iMANPOL program, we developed an enhanced capacity allocation algorithm that can better cope with severe congestion and misbehaving users and traffic flows. We compare the E-LM with the LM baseline algorithm (B-LM), which employs priority-weighted allocation. The B-LM is expected to perform well for the majority of traffic patterns, but does...
Topics: DTIC Archive, AIR FORCE TEST CENTER EDWARDS AFB CA, *BANDWIDTH, ALGORITHMS, ALLOCATIONS, RADIO...
During FY 87, the Studies, Concepts, and Analysis Division, Logistics Directorate, OJCS, contracted with the Systems Research and Applications (SRA) Corporation to examine the ability of the Services and the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to apply Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan (JSCP) materiel apportionment guidance during deliberate planning, and to allocate material in accordance with JCS guidance during execution. SRA developed a technical report, the Joint Materiel Apportionment and...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Day, Robert, SRA CORP ARLINGTON VA, *JOINT MILITARY ACTIVITIES, *STRATEGIC ANALYSIS,...
Mutational events that drive a normal cell to become a cancer cell require the coordinated overexpression of multiple biomarkers. Unique biomarker combinations can create dynamic, physiologic patterns at different stages of cancer development. The assignment of protein expression patterns, or protein profiling, to delineate differences between normal tissues and developing cancer is gaining momentum as a critical instrument in aiding diagnosis, tailoring therapeutics, and predicting clinical...
Topics: DTIC Archive, MEDICAL UNIV OF SOUTH CAROLINA CHARLESTON, *CANCER, ALLOCATIONS, ENZYMES, FRAGMENTS,...
In this paper we describe an approach to the problem of weighting and credit assignment for various factors that contribute to an analysis or outcome of a problem situation and discuss issues about weighting as they tough upon our case-based reasoner HYPO. In HYPO, we take the approach of delaying for as long as possible any assignment of weights and of symbolically comparing the competing factors. We call this approach a least commitment weighing scheme.
Topics: DTIC Archive, Rissland, Edwina L, MASSACHUSETTS UNIV AMHERST DEPT OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION...
Role allocation has emerged as one of the key issue in teamwork involving communication. While direct point-to-point communication is expensive and uncertain, access to neighbors is reliable and efficient in scale-free networks such as those found in open environments and social networks. This suggests decentralized approaches to role allocation based on communication between neighbors. This paper adapts and evaluates some of the basic types of algorithms in distributed role allocation in open...
Topics: DTIC Archive, NAVAL RESEARCH LAB WASHINGTON DC, *PROBLEM SOLVING, *ALGORITHMS, DECENTRALIZATION,...
This technical report examines two challenges related to resource allocation that can negatively affect system operation in a dynamic environment, where warfighter needs for resources, resource availability, environmental effects, and mission conditions can change from moment to moment. The first challenge occurs when warfighters overstate their individual needs of a shared resource, leading to inefficient allocation. Overstatement may bring local optimization; however, it can cause global...
Topics: DTIC Archive, CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INST, *ALLOCATIONS,...
Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) is a Bayesian network that has recently gained much popularity in applications ranging from document modeling to computer vision. Due to the large scale nature of these applications, current inference procedures like variational Bayes and Gibbs sampling have been found lacking. In this paper we propose the collapsed variational Bayesian inference algorithm for LDA, and show that it is computationally efficient, easy to implement and significantly more accurate...
Topics: DTIC Archive, CALIFORNIA UNIV IRVINE SCHOOL OF INFORMATION AND COMPUTER SCIENCE, *ALGORITHMS,...
Two approaches to function analysis and to function allocation were investigated. One function analysis approach (Bottom-Up) extracted functions from a very detailed task time line (TTL) database. These were the functions that might have been implemented to produce the task performance documented in the TTL. A second approach (Top-Down) created a functional architecture of the objective Accomplish Commercial Transport Missions using the function modeling method Structured Analysis and Design...
Topics: DTIC Archive, DOUGLAS AIRCRAFT CO LONG BEACH CA, *COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT, *FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS,...
Theories of blame posit that observers consider causality, controllability, and foreseeability when assigning blame to actors. The present study examined which of these factors, either on their own or in interaction, predicted blame assigned to actors in a case of harm caused by negligence. The findings revealed that only causal impact ratings predicted blame. The findings also revealed a novel form of asymmetric discounting: the causal impact of a negligent actor was used to discount blame...
Topics: DTIC Archive, DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT TORONTO (CANADA), *COGNITION, ALLOCATIONS, CANADA,...
This monograph offers a decision framework for complex problems of resource allocation. Includes chapters on formulating the problem, the research effort, evaluation of alternatives, interpretations of results; and implementation and verification once the decision is made.
Topics: DTIC Archive, Abell, John T, NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI, *DEFENSE SYSTEMS, RESOURCE MANAGEMENT,...
A computer program automates the process of selecting unbiased peer reviewers of research proposals submitted to NASA. Heretofore, such selection has been performed by manual searching of two large databases subject to a set of assignment rules. One database lists proposals and proposers; the other database lists potential reviewers. The manual search takes an average of several weeks per proposal. In contrast, the present software can perform the selection in seconds. The program begins by...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), COMPUTER PROGRAMS, DATA BASES, PROPOSALS, ALLOCATIONS,...
A model of team decision making based on an individual decision making model is developed. The team model focuses on how individual team members use informational cues to reach judgments that are incorporated into team decisions. The notion of distributed expertise illustrates the allocation of critical information across team members. The model specifically addresses the decision making processes of hierarchical teams in which there is one identified leader or decision maker for the team. In...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Ilgen, Daniel R, MICHIGAN STATE UNIV EAST LANSING, *DECISION MAKING, HIERARCHIES,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, OAKLAND UNIV ROCHESTER MI DEPT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, *RELIABILITY, *SIMULATION,...
An abstract hide and seek game is solved, the unique feature of which is that the hiders are constrained to return to a fixed point periodically.
Topics: DTIC Archive, NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA, *GAME THEORY, *MOTION, FREQUENCY ALLOCATION,...
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The purpose of this research was to develop an application of multiattribute utility theory to the person-job match problem. An index of attrition severity was developed using five factors: retention rate, personnel replacement cost, rating size, rating r
Topic: *ATTRITION, *PERSONNEL RETENTION, COST ANALYSIS, NAVAL PERSONNEL, RATES, MANPOWER, CLASSIFICATION,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Hansen, Jens M., DANISH DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT COPENHAGEN, *ANTIMISSILE...
