Scheduling patrol boats and crews for the Royal Australian Navy

M E T Horn (), H Jiang and P Kilby
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M E T Horn: CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences
H Jiang: University of Cambridge
P Kilby: Australian National University

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2007, vol. 58, issue 10, 1284-1293

Abstract: Abstract The Royal Australian Navy's Patrol Boat Force carries out essential tasks in the surveillance, policing and defence of Australia's coastal waters. To help the Navy make efficient use of a new generation of boats, the authors have developed optimization procedures to schedule the activities of the boats and their crews. The procedures—embodied in a software system called CBM (‘Crews, Boats, Missions’)—use simulated annealing and specialized heuristic techniques within a multi-stage problem-solving framework. Tests show that CBM is reliable in terms of solution quality, and flexible with respect to the range of scheduling conditions applied. CBM has proved valuable to the Navy as an investigatory tool, and it is planned that it should be adapted for operational use, as part of a decision support system to aid in the ongoing management of patrol boat operations.

Keywords: heuristics; military; multi-objective; optimization; planning; scheduling; metaheuristics; simulated annealing; penalty methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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