Course-of-Action Selection Tool (COAST)

Abstract

The Course-of-Action Selection Tool (COAST) implements a general normative decision-making strategy that has been tailored to support an Operational Planning Team (OPT) at a Theater Command in the preparation of a Course-of-Action (COA) Selection Matrix. The COA is used by the OPT to brief a recommended COA, and alternative COAs, for a mission proposed to the Commander in Chief (CINC). A set of COAs, a set of criteria, and a comparison of the importance of the criteria are used as inputs to COAST. The criteria are ranked by importance and the user evaluates the likelihood that each COA satisfies each criterion by using a linguistic possibility scale from fuzzy logic. The results are presented as a COA Selection Matrix from which an overall possibility of mission success is computed. It is a normalized estimate that can be used to meaningfully compare different missions with dissimilar evaluation criteria. Fuzzy logic, Normative decision making.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1994
Accession Number
ADA281589

Entities

People

  • J. S. Herman
  • R. W. Larsen

Organizations

  • Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Availability
  • Command And Control
  • Consistency
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Decision Theory
  • Fuzzy Logic
  • Fuzzy Sets
  • Logic
  • Military Research
  • Ocean Surveillance
  • Operations Research
  • Probability
  • Reasoning
  • Security
  • Set Theory
  • Surveillance
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation
  • Regression Analysis.