The Value of Information in Combat Decision Making.

Abstract

The Lanchester model is a widely used abstraction of the complexities of combat. Normally, the initial friendly and enemy strengths are assumed to be deterministic. However, in reality, there may be some uncertainty associated with both variables. This paper provides a methodology for evaluating the benefit of reducing this uncertainty by information collection. This technique is derived from concepts of evaluation of perfect information developed in Decision Analysis. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA050847

Entities

People

  • Allen F. Grum
  • David R. E. Hale
  • Terry A.. Bresnick

Organizations

  • United States Military Academy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Contracts
  • Equations
  • Lanchester Equations
  • New York
  • Operations Research
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Security
  • Small Arms
  • Systems Science
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Uncertainty
  • United States
  • United States Military Academy
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.