Target selection schemes
By: Bernard C. Hughes Jr
Contributors: Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Monterey, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 95
Subjects: Operations research
Description: This thesis investigates and subjectively evaluates four high resolution combat models' algorithmic depiction of a direct firer's target selection under combat conditions. The target selection algorithms of the Janus(T), Janus(L), Carmonette, and STAR models are investigated in detail. The models' target selection algorithms are analyzed first with respect to a direct firer's target selection as dictated by doctrine and then compared with each other. The evaluation showed there is a parallelism between the model builders decision logic and doctrinal rules. The benefits derived from target selection algorithms far outweigh their inability to accurately depict the intangible variables of actual combat. Use of the models allow the Army's leaders to sharpen their tactical skills and provide a means to analyze results of combat decisions in a non-combat environment. (Author)
Notes: Thesis advisor(s): Barr, Donald R.

"March 1988."

Thesis (M.S. in Operations Analysis)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 1988.

Includes bibliographical references:(p. 93-94).

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