Practice Summary: Optimal Student Group Reassignment at U.S. Naval Academy

Robert M. Curry (), Joseph Foraker (), Gary Lazzaro () and David M. Ruth ()
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Robert M. Curry: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701
Joseph Foraker: United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland 21402
Gary Lazzaro: United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland 21402
David M. Ruth: University of Austin, Austin, Texas 78746

Interfaces, 2024, vol. 54, issue 3, 205-210

Abstract: The U.S. Naval Academy is composed of 30 companies of students. Each student has a merit score, and each company has an average merit score. Leadership desires to minimize the deviation in average merit scores by splitting each company into first-year and upper-class groups and reassigning first-year groups to new upper-class groups. We perform this reassignment using greedy and optimal approaches. The standard deviation of average merit scores is reduced by more than half.

Keywords: force effectiveness < military; personnel < military; matchings < networks/graphs; applications < integer programming; statistics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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