An Algorithm for Allocating Artillery Support in the AirLand Research Model.

Abstract

This thesis extends the development of algorithms for modeling planning processes in the AirLand Research Model (ALARM), an on-going research effort at the Naval Postgraduate School. An algorithm is developed to determine optimal mission assignments for supporting combat resources based on the determination of optimal firer-target combinations. The method of differential games is adopted as the optimizer for the algorithm. The algorithm is applied to a problem of determining artillery battalion mission assignments in supporting a U.S. brigade engaged with an enemy division. The algorithm is solved using FORTRAN 77 and the IMSL routine DGEAR. Keywords: Attrition; AirLand Battle (doctrine); Allocation of artillery; Differential game; Generalized value system; Subroutines. (Theses)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA175302

Entities

People

  • John M. Geddes Jr

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

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Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Ammunition
  • Artillery
  • Artillery Fire
  • Artillery Units
  • Attrition
  • Classification
  • Combat Forces
  • Differential Equations
  • Game Theory
  • Mathematics
  • Operations Research
  • Schools
  • United States
  • United States Military Academy
  • Warfare
  • Weapons

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