Journal article
A quality function deployment approach to task organization in peacekeeping force design
Socio-economic planning sciences, v 33(2), pp 131-149
1999
Abstract
This article presents a model for determining the composition of a United States peacekeeping force deployed to Bosnia. The model, which is loosely based on Quality Function Deployment (QFD), uses three matrices in series to relate the interests of stakeholders involved in the conflict to the composition of the US force deployed in Bosnia. In addition, we have used AHP to determine the weighted importance of various stakeholders and the intensity of the relationship between the variables involved in the model. The recommendations of the model are more or less validated by the actual force composition currently deployed in Bosnia. The advantage of the model is to add “fine tuning” and precision to an otherwise ad hoc decision making process concerning the deployment of armed forces. The model can be used in other force composition planning scenarios.
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Details
- Title
- A quality function deployment approach to task organization in peacekeeping force design
- Creators
- Fariborz Y Partovi - Drexel UniversityJohn M Epperly - United States Army, Department of Military Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
- Publication Details
- Socio-economic planning sciences, v 33(2), pp 131-149
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Decision Sciences (and Management Information Systems)
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0033150131
- Other Identifier
- 991019173670304721