A Modified Separable Programming Approach to Weapon System Allocation Problems.

Abstract

The thesis considers mathematical techniques for computing the optimal allocation of weapons from m different systems against n undefended targets. A standard nonlinear programming problem is considered. A discussion is given on John Danskin's Algorithm for the determination of the optimal values of the Lagrange multipliers for this problem. Using a transformation of variables, the nonlinear problem is reformulated as a separable problem and solved by separable programming. A new method, the hybrid algorithm, for the determination of the optimal Lagrange multipliers is developed. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0761509

Entities

People

  • Thomas Robert Mclaughlin Jr

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Computer Programming
  • Evolutionary Algorithms
  • Heuristic Methods
  • Mathematics
  • Nonlinear Programming
  • Standards
  • Weapon Systems
  • Weapons

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Operations Research