Strategic positioning in tactical scenario planning

Capability planning problems are pervasive throughout many areas of human interest with prominent examples found in defense and security. Planning provides a unique context for optimization that has not been explored in great detail and involves a number of interesting challenges which are distinct from traditional optimization research. Planning problems demand solutions that can satisfy a number of competing objectives on multiple scales related to robustness, adaptiveness, risk, etc. The scenario method is a key approach for planning. Scenarios can be defined for long-term as well as shortterm plans. This paper introduces computational scenario-based planning problems and proposes ways to accommodate strategic positioning within the tactical planning domain. We demonstrate the methodology in a resource planning problem that is solved with a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm. Our discussion and results highlight the fact that scenario-based planning is naturally framed within a...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: GECCO
• Authors: James M. Whitacre, Hussein A. Abbass, Ruhul A. Sarker, Axel Bender, Stephen Baker
• Keywords: Capability Planning Problems, GECCO 2008, Optimization, Planning Problems, Scenario-based Planning