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The International Symposium on |
Proceedings of the
31st International Symposium on Military OR
29th July to 1st August 2014
The symposium programme can be found here.
You may also like to see the group photograph.
The symposium included the 19th Annual Meeting of the Cornwallis Group.
The calling notice for Cornwallis XIX, which was held on
30th July, can be found here.
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| Opening keynote: The importance of research and analysis to the military | Major General Nick Pope, Director General Capability, British Army |
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| Ronnie Shephard Memorial Address | Eugene P Visco, USA |
Address Biography |
Papers, presentations and posters |
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Tuesday 29th July |
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| Extended readiness and capability regeneration – helping the MOD to understand the true implications of cost savings | Emma Matthews, CORDA, BAE Systems, UK | Slides |
| Developing capabilities in performance-based contracting – a pre-study of Swedish defence acquisition | Thomas Ekstrom, FOI, and Kostas Selviaridis, Lund University, Sweden |
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| Optimisation of the Turkish Air Force personnel-course assignment process | Capt Cem Malyemez, Air Force Command, Turkey | Slides |
| The dilemma of early warning against debris caused by successful ballistic missile interception | Dima Kanevsky, Rafael, Israel |
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| System maps – helping MOD optimise the generation of capability | Ed Aubrey, CORDA, BAE Systems, UK | Slides |
| Implementing the National Security Through Technology white paper – how to deliver capability in an uncertain world | David Dean, Dstl, UK | Slides |
| The purposes of operations planning: an analytical framework | Paddy Turner, QinetiQ, Dr Lorraine Dodd, Cranfield University and Geoff Markham, UK | Slides |
| Whither command and control? Analysis or crystal ball? | Dr John Catherall, Edward Kennedy, David Lewthwaite, Paul Pearce, Dr Paul Syms and Ian Tamm, Dstl, UK | Slides |
| Modelling human reasoning in dynamic time-constrained environments: the pros and cons of folk psychology | Dr Emma Norling, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and Dr Clint Heinze, DSTO, Australia | Slides |
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Wednesday 30th July
Theme: Analysis of Commercial and Market Force Roles in Conflict Management and Mitigation |
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| Introduction to the Cornwallis Group and to Cornwallis XIX | Tony Hopkin, Dstl, UK (Managing Chair, the Cornwallis Group) | Slides |
| Balancing regular and non-regular forces to achieve military effect | Alan Lawrence, Dstl, UK | Slides |
| 'Operational' operational analysis after Afghanistan | Graham Brownbill, Dstl, UK | Slides |
| Analysis informs redeployment of materiel from Afghanistan | René Nevola, Dstl, UK | Slides |
| The impact of contractor support on operational risk | Andrzej Frank, Head of OA Branch, ARRC | Slides |
| Instituting a Value Engineering (VE) program to reduce costs of both products and services at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) | Dr Bill McDaniel and Eric Whittington, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, and John Rosbrugh, Defense Information Systems Agency, USA | Slides |
| Murphy's Law: Clausewitzian Friction on the modern battlefield | Eugene Visco, USA | Slides and notes |
Wednesday 30th July: Other sessions |
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| New approaches to validation | Alan Robinson and Paul Glover, Dstl, UK | Slides |
| Workshop: Managing defence OR | Dr Roger Forder, UK | Slides |
Thursday 31st July |
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| Recognising when your analysis is having an impact | Andy Caldwell, Dstl, UK | Slides |
| Overseeing relations between analyst, practitioner and policy-maker: a meta-view of planning and designing for agility in a complex world | Dr Lorraine Dodd, Cranfield University, Geoff Markham and Paddy Turner, QinetiQ, UK | Slides |
| Concentration and asymmetry in air power: historical lessons for the defensive employment of small air forces | Dr Niall Mackay, University of York, and Dr Chris Price, York St John University, UK |
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| Strategic cyber cost-effectiveness analysis | Robin Smith, Arke Ltd, UK | Slides |
| A capability-led approach to collaborative technology planning | Kevin Smith, BAE Systems, and Jenny Young, MBDA(UK), UK | Slides |
| Support to operations: recent history and future trends | Andrzej Frank, Head of OA Branch, ARRC | Contact author |
| On the changing nature of air combat: real and simulated | Dr Michael Papasimeon and Dr Clint Heinze, DSTO, Australia | Slides |
| Artificial intelligence algorithms and new approaches to wargame simulation | Dr Stephen Lucek, Newman and Spurr Consultancy, and Dr Simon Collander-Brown, Dstl, UK |
Slides Paper |
| Searching for the ISR Holy Grail | Ruth Carpenter, Dstl, UK |
Slides Paper |
| Time latency of information in networked operations: effect of 'human in the loop' | Dr Kevin Ng, Dr Roy Mitchell, Dr B Solomon, DRDC, and Dr Natalie Lam, University of Ottawa, Canada |
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Friday 1st August |
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| In search of proxies for measuring fleet readiness | Matthew Macleod and Dr Andrew Billyard, DRDC, Canada |
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| Measuring the relationship between energy use and military capability: historical perspectives | David Bangert and John Shimell, Polaris Consulting Ltd, and Neil Davies, Defence Economics Ltd, UK | Slides |
| Re-finding NATO doctrine – Analysis in support of the NATO doctrine development process | Simon Purton, Allied Command Transformation, NATO | Slides |
| Cornwallis XIX: Report back to 31 ISMOR | Tony Hopkin, Dstl, UK | Slides |
| 31 ISMOR: themes and trends | Dr Tony Sinden, Decision Analysis Services Ltd, UK | Slides |
Posters |
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| 30 years of OR in the UK defence industry: a young analyst's perspective | Ben Ludford, CORDA, UK | Poster |
| Actuarial analysis of warship lifespan | Alistair Morley, MBDA, UK | Poster |
| How vulnerable are you? | Rob Fryer and Jonathan Hare, Dstl, and Maj Johno Breeze, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, UK | Poster |
| Implementing National Security Through Technology - How to deliver capability in an uncertain world | David Dean, Claire Burt, Niki Jobson, Martin Ball, Max Murray-Brooks, Mike Reid and David Lowe, Dstl, UK | Poster |
| ISS Training and Education Services Project | Melissa Goodman, Actica Consulting Limited, UK | Poster |
| Plaform Capability Assessment Tool | Barry Thorne, BMT Defence Services, UK | Poster |
| Understanding A to B: MoD's logistics modelling capability | Anjna Kashyap, Dstl, UK | Poster |