An integer solution heuristic for the arsenal exchange model

Air Force Studies and Analyses Agency (AFSAA) was using the Arsenal Exchange Model (AEM) to allocate the weapons of various strategic force structures to targets. AEM often allocates a fractional number of weapons to a class of targets and then truncates this number to get an integer allocation of weapons. AFSAA wanted a better approach to obtain integer solutions. In this research Dan Green, Jim Moore, and John Borsi developed a heuristic which finds better integer solutions in less than five seconds. Their heuristic has been incorporated in AEM.