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Validity Measure and Flow Allocation of Military Supply Transportation during War-preparation and Warfare Periods

Zhou Wei, Wang Qiangqiang   

  1. International Business School, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming 650221
  • Received:2016-08-30 Online:2017-04-28 Published:2017-04-21

Abstract:

To address the issue about how to reasonably transport military supply during war-preparation and warfare periods, this paper proposes a validity measure by introducing a similar normal-function, namely the double-exponential function. Then, some attractive properties, such as volume definiteness, flow equilibrium, network convertibility, serial-road continuity, and parallel-road independence, are proven. The differences between the military supply transportations during war-preparation and warfare periods are analyzed. Based on this, the flow allocation models for military supply transportations during war-preparation and warfare periods are constructed. Moreover, two delete-loop methods are given to handle the cyclic flow phenomenon. Finally, two examples of the military supply transportation during war-preparation and warfare periods respectively are provided to demonstrate the feasibility and validity of these new models.

Key words: military supply, transportation network, validity, concealment, double-exponential function