A Methodology to Find Overall System Effectiveness in a Multicriterion Environment Using Surface to Air Missile Weapon Systems as an Example

Abstract

Finding overall system effectiveness from a multicriterion environment using SAM weapon systems as an example, is the purpose of this thesis. SAM weapon systems were rated by four groups of experienced individuals, and judged overall system effectiveness for each system was calculated using the Constant Sum Scaling Method. Multiple regression analysis was then used to establish a functional relationship between overall system effectiveness and weapon characteristics (including missile price). It was concluded that there were no significant differences among the judged results in the four groups, nor between judged and functional overall system effectiveness. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA109549

Entities

People

  • Knut O. Flaathen

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Computer Programs
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Environment
  • Experimental Design
  • Information Science
  • Judgment
  • Kill Probabilities
  • Operations Research
  • Reaction Time
  • Regression Analysis
  • Schools
  • Statistics
  • Weapon Systems
  • Weapons

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