<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Todor Tagarev</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tsvetomir Tsachev</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nikolay Zhivkov</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Formalizing the Optimization Problem in Long-Term Capability Planning</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Information &amp; Security: An International Journal</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">capabilities-based planning</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">defense planning risks</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">discrete dynamic optimization.</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">force structure</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">scenario planning</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009</style></year></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">23</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">99-114</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%"> In defining future force capabilities, decision makers need to balance objectives, strategy, force capabilities, and risk within a forecasted force develop­ment environment and resource levels. This is commonly a task in long-term de­fense and force planning. This paper presents a mathematical formalization of the planning problem that involves static and dynamic optimization. Several static and dynamic discrete optimization models illustrate the approach. The concluding sec­tion presents a short deliberation on applicability.
</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></issue></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lozan Bizov</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Scenarios in a Rational Approach towards Planning under Uncertainty</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Information &amp; Security: An International Journal</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">contextual scenario</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">planning scenarios</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">scenario planning</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Scenarios</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">situational scenario.</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">23</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">73-78</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%"> The implementation of the scenario approach at all levels in the modern national security process is unavoidable. As long as it is not part of the Bulgarian military practice yet, there is a need the idea to be communicated, and sound expla­nations provided in terms of rationalizing the defense and force planning process.
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