Shoot-Look-Shoot: A Review and Extension

Shoot-Look-Shoot: A Review and Extension

We consider the optimal use of information in shooting at a collection of targets, generally with the object of maximizing the average number (or value) of targets killed. The shooting problem is viewed as a Markov decision process, and the modal solution technique is stochastic dynamic programming....

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Veröffentlicht in:Operations research 2004-05, Vol.52 (3), p.454-463
Hauptverfasser: Glazebrook, Kevin, Washburn, Alan
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Analysis
Average cost
Binomials
Decision analysis
Dynamic programming
dynamic programming/optimal control
Expected values
Firearms
Markov analysis
Markov finite state
Markov infinite state
Markov processes
military
Military research
Minimization of cost
Optimal policy
Perfect information
probability
Random variables
sequential
Shootings
stochastic model applications
Studies
targeting
Weapons
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Zusammenfassung:We consider the optimal use of information in shooting at a collection of targets, generally with the object of maximizing the average number (or value) of targets killed. The shooting problem is viewed as a Markov decision process, and the modal solution technique is stochastic dynamic programming. Information obtained about target status may or may not be perfect, and there may or may not be constraints on the number of shots. Previous results are reviewed, and some new results are obtained.
ISSN:0030-364X
1526-5463
DOI:10.1287/opre.1030.0086