MAN-COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES PROBLEMS.

Abstract

The work reported concerns the observation of problem-solving behavior exhibited by subjects who were given an allocation-of-resources task. The task was to deploy Polaris-like weapon systems against a given target system under stated constraints. While the task is formulable as an integer linear programming problem, the subjects solved it by resorting to heuristic procedures. These procedures, as well as the solutions produced, seem to indicate that a problem solver may encounter considerable difficulty in uncovering the ordering of decision alternatives, if this ordering is a partial one. Following the study of unaided performance, two distinct computer-aid concepts were developed and tested. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1964
Accession Number
AD0430035

Entities

People

  • Ira Kaplan
  • L. L. Vallerie
  • U. O. Gagliardi

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Mathematics
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Integer Programming
  • Interdisciplinary Science
  • Linear Programming
  • Mathematical Programming
  • Mathematics
  • Observation
  • Operations Research
  • Systems Science
  • Weapon Systems
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Operations Research
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.