OPTIMAL GROUP STRATEGIES

Abstract

The report generalizes the theory of precommit antimissile defense strategies by analyzing the case in which the defense has the ability to assign interceptors to defend groups of targets instead of individual targets only. The defense's objective is to choose the mix of group sizes and the number of interceptors assigned to each group in such a way that target survival is maximized in the event of attack. In the report, the analytic basis is established for a technique to study group defense strategies. Also, a computational procedure is presented for determining optimal attack and defense allocations numerically and for calculating the expected number of targets surviving. Game theory and linear programming are among the analytic techniques used.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0703298

Entities

People

  • Jay E. Israel

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Air Force
  • Algorithms
  • Combinatorial Analysis
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Computations
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Core Storage
  • Data Storage Systems
  • Game Theory
  • Linear Programming
  • Mathematical Models
  • Operations Research
  • Simplex Method

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Linear Algebra
  • Missile Defense Systems.