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Optimal strategies for problems of simultaneous attack against an area defense without impact‐point prediction

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  • Norman T. O'Meara
  • Richard M. Soland

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An area to be defended consists of separated point targets. These targets are subject to an attack in which the offensive weapons are assumed to arrive simultaneously. The defense has area defenders, each of which is capable of intercepting any attacker. The defense has no impact‐point prediction; that is, it has no knowledge of any attacker's destination prior to allocation of area interceptors. For a given attack, the defense wishes to allocate its interceptors to maximize the total expected survival value of the targets. For a given attack size, the offense seeks a strategy to minimize total expected surviving value against best defense. We determine an optimal defensive strategy directly and develop an algorithm to determine an optimal attack and the optimal value of the min‐max problem. A dynamic programming technique is used to obtain integer solutions, and illustrative computational results are provided.

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  • Norman T. O'Meara & Richard M. Soland, 1991. "Optimal strategies for problems of simultaneous attack against an area defense without impact‐point prediction," Naval Research Logistics (NRL), John Wiley & Sons, vol. 38(3), pages 289-302, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:navres:v:38:y:1991:i:3:p:289-302
    DOI: 10.1002/1520-6750(199106)38:33.0.CO;2-Q
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