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Sep 14, 2015

Chinese Attacks on U.S. Air Bases in Asia: An Assessment of Relative Capabilities, 1996–2017

Discussion about China's military modernization has included little comparative analysis of Chinese and U.S. military capabilities. This brief focuses on improvements to China's ability to disrupt or degrade U.S. operations by attacking air bases.
Research

Mar 20, 2014

Analysis to Inform Defense Planning Despite Austerity

Defense analysis can better serve policymakers by exploiting improvements in the state of the art and by rediscovering and supplementing classic principles. These relate to multiple objectives and hedging against uncertainty.
Research Summary

Jul 1, 2013

Developing a research evaluation framework

Research funders, policy makers and researchers themselves need to evaluate research. This brief presents a decision tree to help develop a research evaluation framework to suit a particular purpose and context, from national down to program level.
Research

Jul 1, 2013

Measuring research: A guide to research evaluation frameworks and tools

This report provides a guide to the key considerations and trade-offs involved in developing an approach to research evaluation, based on a review of research evaluation frameworks and tools used internationally.
Research

Apr 8, 2013

Commercial Intratheater Airlift: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Use in U.S. Central Command

Intratheater airlift delivers critical and time-sensitive supplies to deployed forces, but is it cost effective to use commercial, rather than organic Air Force, aircraft to supply this airlift?
Research

Mar 15, 2013

Portfolio Optimization by Means of Multiple Tandem Certainty-Uncertainty Searches: A Technical Description

This paper describes a new approach and associated search schemes for optimization under uncertainty. Analysts can apply this method to a problem with a significantly larger number of decision variables, uncertain parameters, and uncertain scenarios.
Jan 30, 2013

Spotlight on 2012: Identify issues, shape policy, evaluate impact

Spotlight on 2012 presents the highlights of RAND Europe's research and other activities in 2012. We describe these in the context of the 'life cycle' of a policy issue, to show the stages at which our research and analysis supports policymakers.
Research

Mar 22, 2012

Funding and performance on clinical guidelines: The cases of dementia and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

This exploratory study investigates the characteristics of publications cited on clinical guidelines, and the funding sources they acknowledge, in order to better understand how research is translated into changes in policy and practice.
Research

Mar 8, 2012

The National Institute for Health Research Leadership Programme: An evaluation of programme progress and delivery

RAND Europe evaluated the National Institute for Health Research Leadership Programme to help the English Department of Health consider the extent to which the programme has helped to foster wider research aims and extract lessons for the future.
Research

Sep 5, 2007

Using Linear Programming to Design Samples for a Complex Survey

Describes a method for designing a sample of Air Force personnel to participate in an online survey of cultural attitudes.
Expert Insights

Jan 1, 2004

On a linear programming-combinatorial approach to the traveling salesman problem

A more detailed description of the linear-programming approach in solving the traveling salesman problem that that presented in P-510. The present study considers the example discussed by L. L. Barachet ("Graphic Solution of the Traveling Salesman Pr...
Expert Insights

Jan 1, 1994

Operations Research and the RAND Corporation

This paper was prepared as an entry for inclusion in the forthcoming book Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science. It describes the many contributions of RAND researchers to the field of operations research.

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Chinese Attacks on U.S. Air Bases in Asia: An Assessment of Relative Capabilities, 1996–2017

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Measuring research: A guide to research evaluation frameworks and tools

Commercial Intratheater Airlift: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Use in U.S. Central Command

Portfolio Optimization by Means of Multiple Tandem Certainty-Uncertainty Searches: A Technical Description

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Using Linear Programming to Design Samples for a Complex Survey

On a linear programming-combinatorial approach to the traveling salesman problem

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