Naval Postgraduate School

Past Theses

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Energy (Electricity, Oil, Gas)

Ileto, Jason V., 2011, "Improving Resiliency of the Petroleum Supply Chain for the Hawaiian Islands", M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. March 2011, [Advisor: R. Dell].
Rose, Robert W., 2007, "Defending Electrical Power Grids," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. March 2007, [Advisor: J. Salmeron].
Ang, Chee Chien, 2006, "Optimized Recovery of Damaged Electrical Power Grids," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. March 2006, [Advisor: J. Salmeron & R.K. Wood].
Brown, Patrick S., 2005, "Optimizing the Long‐Term Capacity Expansion and Protection of Iraqi Oil Infrastructure," (U) M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. September 2005, [Advisor: G. Brown].
Carnal, David D., 2005, "An Enhanced Implementation of Models for Electric Power Grid Interdiction," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. September 2005, [Advisor: R.K. Wood].
Alvarez, Rogelio E., 2004, "Interdicting Electrical Power Grids," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. March 2004, [Advisor: J. Salmeron].
Stathakos, Dimitrios, 2003, "An Enhanced Graphical User Interface for Analyzing the Vulnerability of Electrical Power Systems to Terrorist Attacks," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. December 2003, [Advisor: J. Salmeron & R.K. Wood].

Emergency Planning and Evacuation

Yuhas, Timothy C., 2011, "Escape from the Delta: Preparation and Evacuation for Catastrophic Flooding in California Emergency Management Agency Region IV," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. March 2011, [Advisor: D. Alderson].
Farlow, Charles R., 2011, "Prepositioning for Flooding in the Sacramento Region," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. March 2011, [Advisor: J. Salmeron].
Langford, William P., 2010, "A Space‐Time Flow Optimization Model for Neighborhood Evacuation," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. March 2010, [Advisor: D. Alderson].
Heidtke, Curtis L., 2007, "Reducing the "Gap of Pain": A Strategy for Optimizing Federal Resource Availability in Response to Major Incidents," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. March 2007, [Advisor: J. Salmeron].

Maritime, Port, and Border Security

Pfeiff, Daniel M., 2009, "Optimizing Employment of Search Platforms to Counter Self‐Propelled Semi‐ Submersibles," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. June 2009, [Advisor: G. Brown].
Abdul‐Ghaffar, Ahmad M., 2008, "Optimal Employment of Port Radar and Picket Ships to Detect Attacker Speedboats: A Defender‐Attacker Optimization Model to Enhance Maritime Domain Awareness," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. June 2008, [Advisor: G. Brown]
Pulat, Halil, 2005, "A Two‐Sided Optimization of Border Patrol Interdiction," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. March 2005, [Advisor: G. Brown].

Transport and Logistics

Onuska, Joshua J., 2012, "Defending the Pittsburgh Waterways against Catastrophic Disruption," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. June 2012.
de la Cruz, Constantino F., 2011, "Defending the Maritime Transport of Cargo for the Hawaiian Islands," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. March 2011, [Advisor: D. Alderson].
Babick, John P., 2009, "Tri‐Level Optimization of Critical Infrastructure Resilience," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. September 2009, [Advisor: M. Carlyle].
Bencomo, Luis A., 2009, "Modeling the Effects of a Transportation Security Incident on the Commercial Transportation System," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. September 2009, [Advisor: G. Brown].
Pidgeon, Edward D., 2008, "Modeling the Effects of a Transportation Security Incident Upon the Marine Transportation System," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. June 2008, [Advisor: G. Brown].
Tean, Ee Shen, 2006, "Optimized Positioning of Pre‐Disaster Relief Force and Assets," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. December 2006, [Advisor: J. Salmeron].
Derbes, H. Dan, 1997, "Efficiently Interdicting a Time‐Expanded Transshipment Network," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. September 1997, [Advisor: R.K. Wood].
Loh, Kok‐Hua, 1991, "Modeling Strategic Strikes Against Transportation Networks," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. September 1991, [Advisor: R.K. Wood].

Communications and Internet

Crain, J. K., "Assessing the Resilience of the Global Undersea Cable Infrastructure," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, June 2012
Nicholas, Paul J., 2009, "Optimal Transmitter Placement in Wireless Mesh Networks," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. June 2009, [Advisor: D. Alderson].
Barkley, T., 2008, "An Attacker‐Defender Model for IP‐Based Networks," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. March 2008, [Advisor: D. Alderson].
Shankar, Arun, 2008, "Optimal Jammer Placement to Interdict Wireless Network Services," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. March 2008, [Advisor: D. Alderson].
Olson, Allen S., 1998, "Classifying PSTN Switching Stations: A National Security Agency Application," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. September 1998, [Advisor: G. Brown, R.K. Wood & N. Curet].

Food and Agriculture

Alexander, Robert G., 2011, "Ensuring Resiliency in the Milk and Dairy Industry in California," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. September 2011, [Advisor: N. Dimitrov].

Weapons of Mass Destruction

Lugo, Manuel X., 2008, "Deceptive Tactics for Protecting Cities Against Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Devices," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. March 2008, [Advisor: J. Salmeron].
Squires, R., (2007), "Interdicting a Smuggled Nuclear Warhead," (U), MS Thesis in Operations Research, NPS, December 2007
Sundberg, Jeffrey P., 2007, "U.S. Chemical Warfare Stockpile Vulnerability : Effects to Local Infrastructure From a Chemical‐Agent Release," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. June 2007, [Advisor: R.K. Wood].
Skroch, Eric M., 2004, "How to Optimally Interdict a Belligerent Project to Develop a Nuclear Weapon," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. March 2004, [Advisor: G. Brown].

Military Applications

Engel, Ryan S. 2011. "Game theory, probabilistic risk, and randomized strategy [electronic resource] : the rulebook revisited with emphasis on Coast Guard Mission Space," M.S. in Applied Mathematics, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA. December 2011. [Advisor: David Alderson]
Scherer, Scott D., 2009, "Game‐Theoretic Anti‐Submarine Warfare Mission Planner (Heuristic‐Based, Fully Excel Capable)," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. September 2009, [Advisor: G. Brown].
Thomas, Adam J.,2008, "Tri‐level Optimization for Anti‐Submarine Warfare Mission Planning, " M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. September 2008, [Advisor: G. Brown & R.K. Wood].
Repass, Lawrence M., 2006, "Optimal Stationing of Radar Pickets and Anti‐Ballistic Missile Defenders for Long Range Surveillance and Tracking (LRS&T) and Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Operations," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. September 2006, [Advisor: G. Brown].
Koprowski, Peter M., 2005, "Interdicting a Force Deployment: Two‐Sided Optimization of Asset Selection, Lift Scheduling, and Multi‐Commodity Load Planning," (U) M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. March 2005, [Advisor: G. Brown].
Oh, Dong Hwan, 2005, "Delaying a Convoy," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. December 2005, [Advisor: R.K. Wood].
Diehl, Douglas D., 2004, "How to Optimize Joint Theater Ballistic Missile Defense," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. March 2003, [Advisor: G. Brown].
Lee, Dong Keun, 1991, "Optimal Routing of Military Convoys Through a Road Network," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. March 1991, [Advisor: R.K. Wood].

Theory

Dixon, Cory A., 2011, "Assessing Vulnerabilities in Interdependent Infrastructures Using Attacker-Defender Models," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. September 2011, [Advisors: D.L. Alderson and W.M. Carlyle].
San Martin, Pablo Alvarez, 2007, "Tri‐Level Optimization Models to Defend Critical Infrastructure," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. September 2007, [Advisor: R.K. Wood].
Erken, Ozgur, 2002, "A Branch‐and‐Bound Algorithm for the Network Diversion Problem," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. December 2002, [Advisor: R.K. Wood].
Uygun, Adnan, 2002, "Network Interdiction by Lagrangian Relaxation and Branch‐and‐Bound," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. June 2002, [Advisor: R.K. Wood].
Bingol, Levent, 2001, "A Lagrangian Heuristic for Solving a Network Interdiction Problem," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. December 2001, [Advisor: R.K. Wood].
Akgun, Ibrahim, 2000,"The K‐Group Maximum‐Flow Network‐Interdiction Problem," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. March 2000, [Advisor: R.K. Wood].
Balcioglu, Ahmet, 2000, "An Algorithm for Enumerating the Near‐Minimum Weight s‐t Cuts of a Graph," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. December 2000, [Advisor: R.K. Wood].
Limsakul, Piya, 1999, "Iterative Algorithms for Two‐Person Zero‐Sum Games," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. March 1999, [Advisor: A. Washburn & J. Eagle].
Boyle, Michael R., 1998, "Partial‐Enumeration for Planar Network Interdiction Problems," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. March 1998, [Advisor: R.K. Wood].
Cormican, Kelly James, 1995, "Computational Methods for Deterministic and Stochastic Network Interdiction Problems," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. March 1995, [Advisor: R.K. Wood].
Steinrauf, Robert L., 1991, "Network Interdiction Models," M.S. Thesis in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. September 1991, [Advisor: R.K. Wood].