A Model for Allocating Interceptors from Overlapping Batteries: A Method of Dynamic Programming

G. E. Swinson, P. H. Randolph, B. J. Dunn, M. E. Walker and R. D. Williams
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G. E. Swinson: Braddock, Dunn and McDonald, Inc., El Paso, Texas
P. H. Randolph: Braddock, Dunn and McDonald, Inc., El Paso, Texas
B. J. Dunn: Braddock, Dunn and McDonald, Inc., El Paso, Texas
M. E. Walker: Braddock, Dunn and McDonald, Inc., El Paso, Texas
R. D. Williams: SAFSEA, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico

Operations Research, 1971, vol. 19, issue 1, 182-193

Abstract: This paper develops a model for the optimum allocation of fixed stockpiles of interceptors. Imbedded dynamic programming and successive approximations serve as the format for the computational scheme. This procedure leads to a local optimum solution in general and to the global optimum in certain instances. A method for determining upper bounds is included in the algorithm so that optimal stopping rules may be used to choose a final solution.

Date: 1971
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