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Assignment with En route training of navy personnel

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  • Agha Iqbal Ali
  • Jeffery L. Kennington
  • Timothy T. Liang

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Each year over 200000 Navy enlisted personnel are assigned new jobs at a cost of over 250 million dollars in moving expenses. The task of selecting assignments is complicated by the fact that an individual can be sent to a technical school (which has a limited capacity) to obtain additional training which makes him eligible for additional jobs. The optimal assignment of Navy personnel with en route training is addressed via an assignment problem with specially structured side constraints. This article presents a new algorithm to solve the integer network problem which is based on resource‐directive decomposition in conjunction with Lagrangian relaxation. The new solution procedure is very fast compared to alternate methods. © 1993 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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  • Agha Iqbal Ali & Jeffery L. Kennington & Timothy T. Liang, 1993. "Assignment with En route training of navy personnel," Naval Research Logistics (NRL), John Wiley & Sons, vol. 40(5), pages 581-592, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:navres:v:40:y:1993:i:5:p:581-592
    DOI: 10.1002/1520-6750(199308)40:53.0.CO;2-#
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    1. Agha Iqbal Ali & Rema Padman & Hemalatha Thiagarajan, 1989. "Dual Algorithms for Pure Network Problems," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 37(1), pages 159-171, February.
    2. Ali, Agha Iqbal & Kennington, Jeff & Shetty, Bala, 1988. "The equal flow problem," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 36(1), pages 107-115, July.
    3. Liang, Timothy T. & Buclatin, Ben B., 1988. "Improving the utilization of training resources through optimal personnel assignment in the U.S. Navy," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 33(2), pages 183-190, January.
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