Abstract

This paper reports a real-world application of a large-scale assignment/allocation mixed-integer program for optimal deployment and targeting of missiles for the U.S. Strategic Air Command. We provide a NETFORM model that reduces the number of zero-one variables of a standard integer programming formulation by more than two orders of magnitude (by factors approaching 500) and a tailored NETFORM software system that solves problems involving 2,400 zero-one variables and 984,000 continuous variables to within 99.9% of optimality in less than one minute on an IBM 4381.

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