Command and Control Theory
Abstract
PROGRESS REPORT. (1) Development of Computer-Aided Design Systems. The computer aided design system being developed had been named CAESAR, for Computer-Aided Evaluation of System Architectures. It consists of four major components: Architecture Generator, Analysis and Evaluation Module, Data Base, and Locus module. (2) Organizational Designs -- Experimental Investigation of the Bounded Rationality Constraint. In this experiment, a simplified air defense task is being used to establish the existence of the bounded rationality constraint. This constraint is defined as a point value and expressed in terms of a bit rate of processing using the information theoretic surrogate for workload developed by Boettcher and Levis. (3) Organizations and Architectures for Distributed Battle Management. The long-range goal of this research is to understand basic issues associated with Battle Management/C3 (BMC3) architectures associated with many weapons engaging several targets. The defensive weapons are assumed imperfect, and the targets may have a finite probability of being decoys. Thus, the problem is one of wise Weapon-to-Target (WTA) assignment strategies, and their interface with other BM/C3 functions.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 25, 1987
- Accession Number
- ADA178600
Entities
People
- Alexander H. Levis
- Michael Athans
Organizations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology