Robust Team-Optimal and Leader-Follower Policies for Decision Making in C3 (Command, Control and Communications) Systems.
Abstract
This report summarizes the findings of a two-year research program. We have been concerned with fundamental research underlying some aspects of the Command, Control, and Communications systems field. Our starting point has been that C3 problems and other large scale decentralized decision and control problems which are traditionally modeled as team problems can be investigated much more effectively as multiple-goal multiple decision maker problems, especially under uncertainty, and we have developed a framework which has permitted us to perform a sensitivity analysis on team-optimal and leader-follower policies in such systems. Our general model involves hierarchies in decision making, informational decentralization, uncertainty in the available information, constraints on information transmission capabilities between different levels of hierarchies, and possible discrepancies between the perceptions of different decision makers of the common goal. The research program has comprised two main tasks, and in addition to the investigation of the sensitivity and robustness of team-optimal and leader-follower strategies to variations in perceptions of the nominal goal (s), we have developed robust coordinator strategies (under uncertainty with regard to the environment and the perceived goals of the subordinate decision makers) which force the subordinate decision makers to act as a team as though their goals were exactly the same. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1984
- Accession Number
- ADA145212
Entities
People
- J. B. Cruz Jr.
- T. Basar
Organizations
- University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign