The AMC Scheduling Problem: A Description for Reproducibility
Laurence A. Kramer, Stephen F. Smith · 2005
The United States Air Force Air Mobility Com-mand (AMC) is responsible for managing hundreds of airlift and air refueling missions every week on a global scale. Allocating airframes and flight crews to individual missions is a large and complex prob-lem. We have built the AMC Airlift and Air Re-fueling Allocator to assist planners and schedulers in this task, and the tool is currently transitioning into daily operations. Development of this system has involved us in a number of fruitful areas of re-search, ranging from building a model that allows end users to interact with the system at varying lev-els of automation to exploring techniques for max-imizing the number of missions assigned in an en-vironment of resource scarcity. In this technical re-port we present a description of the AMC schedul-ing problem in a somewhat abstract form, so that interested parties may experiment with it. We pro-vide specifications for building the model, provide pointers to input data, and provide end results for scheduling missions while varying capacity con-strainedness. 1