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Mar 27, 2023

Optimizing Portfolio-Level Modernization Investment: An Overview of the Aim Point Investment Model (APIM)

This report introduces the Aim Point Investment Model, which helps decisionmakers allocate portfolio-level resources based on existing Army data sources, subject to constraints on the U.S. Army's ability to employ those resources productively.
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Feb 14, 2023

Optimal Non-Pharmaceutical Pandemic Response Strategies Depend Critically on Time Horizons and Costs

This paper performs a large-scale optimization exercise to find optimal non-pharmaceutical pandemic response strategies.
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Dec 7, 2022

Overcoming Compound Racial Inequity: Policies and Costs for Closing the Black-White Wealth Gap

The wealth gap between Black and white Americans is the result of inequities compounded over time. Using Survey of Consumer Finances data, the authors analyze the wealth gap and the potential impacts of disparity-reducing wealth-allocation policies.
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Oct 28, 2021

Commercial and Military Applications and Timelines for Quantum Technology

This report provides an overview of the current state of quantum technology and its potential commercial and military applications, such as data encryption and extremely precise sensors.
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Mar 15, 2013

Portfolio Optimization by Means of Multiple Tandem Certainty-Uncertainty Searches: A Technical Description

This paper describes a new approach and associated search schemes for optimization under uncertainty. Analysts can apply this method to a problem with a significantly larger number of decision variables, uncertain parameters, and uncertain scenarios.
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Jan 1, 2002

An Optimization Approach to Workforce Planning for the Information Technology Field

A new approach to getting the optimal mix of Army information technology personnel
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Jan 1, 1999

A Global Optimization Method for Nonlinear Bilevel Programming Problems

Nonlinear two-level programming deals with optimization problems in which the constraint region is implicitly determined by another problem.
Expert Insights

Jan 1, 1974

Solving Optimization Problems Subject to a Budget Constraint with Economies of Scale

This paper describes a finite procedure for locating a global minimum of a problem which is linear in the objective and constraints except for one nonlinear constraint which is of the "reverse convex" variety.
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Jan 1, 1974

Implicit Function Theorems for Optimization Problems and for Systems of Inequalities

Implicit function formulas for differentiating the solutions of mathematical programming problems satisfying the conditions of the Kuhn-Tucker theorem are motivated and rigorously demonstrated.
Research

Jan 1, 1974

The Implications of Manpower Supply and Productivity for the Pay and Composition of the Military Force: An Optimization Model

Development of a mathematical model of military manpower used to describe the dynamic flow of personnel within the military system.
Expert Insights

Jan 1, 1972

An Optimization Algorithm for Cluster Analysis.

Given a set of [N] points and distances between all points, this paper presents an algorithm for determining an optimal partition of the points into [k] mutually exclusive and exhaustive subsets or clusters according to an objective function defined ...
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Jan 1, 1971

Optimization of Price and Quality in Service Systems.

Discussion of techniques for quantitative determination of the optimal prices and service quality in a wide class of systems. A probabilistic demand model sensitive to both price and quality is derived from the microeconomic concept that a consumer ...

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Optimizing Portfolio-Level Modernization Investment: An Overview of the Aim Point Investment Model (APIM)

Optimal Non-Pharmaceutical Pandemic Response Strategies Depend Critically on Time Horizons and Costs

Overcoming Compound Racial Inequity: Policies and Costs for Closing the Black-White Wealth Gap

Commercial and Military Applications and Timelines for Quantum Technology

Portfolio Optimization by Means of Multiple Tandem Certainty-Uncertainty Searches: A Technical Description

An Optimization Approach to Workforce Planning for the Information Technology Field

A Global Optimization Method for Nonlinear Bilevel Programming Problems

Solving Optimization Problems Subject to a Budget Constraint with Economies of Scale

Implicit Function Theorems for Optimization Problems and for Systems of Inequalities

The Implications of Manpower Supply and Productivity for the Pay and Composition of the Military Force: An Optimization Model

An Optimization Algorithm for Cluster Analysis.

Optimization of Price and Quality in Service Systems.

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Optimizing Portfolio-Level Modernization Investment: An Overview of the Aim Point Investment Model (APIM)

Optimal Non-Pharmaceutical Pandemic Response Strategies Depend Critically on Time Horizons and Costs

Overcoming Compound Racial Inequity: Policies and Costs for Closing the Black-White Wealth Gap

Commercial and Military Applications and Timelines for Quantum Technology

Portfolio Optimization by Means of Multiple Tandem Certainty-Uncertainty Searches: A Technical Description

An Optimization Approach to Workforce Planning for the Information Technology Field

A Global Optimization Method for Nonlinear Bilevel Programming Problems

Solving Optimization Problems Subject to a Budget Constraint with Economies of Scale

Implicit Function Theorems for Optimization Problems and for Systems of Inequalities

The Implications of Manpower Supply and Productivity for the Pay and Composition of the Military Force: An Optimization Model

An Optimization Algorithm for Cluster Analysis.

Optimization of Price and Quality in Service Systems.

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