Further Development of a Strategic Weapons Exchange Allocation Model

Abstract

This paper describes a model of a two-strike nuclear exchange that requires the solution of a nonlinear max-min problem. The model is approximated by a separable, piecewise linear model for which the resulting max-min problem can be solved using a branch and bound algorithm. Computational results are discussed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA057194

Entities

People

  • Jeffrey H. Grotte

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Facilities
  • Algorithms
  • Computers
  • Curve Fitting
  • Department Of Defense
  • Intervals
  • Kill Probabilities
  • Landing Fields
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Reliability
  • Scalar Functions
  • Strategic Weapons
  • Submarines
  • Survival
  • Targets
  • Weapons

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Graph Algorithms and Convex Optimization.
  • Strategic Security Studies