Shoot-Look-Shoot: A Review and Extension

Kevin Glazebrook () and Alan Washburn ()
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Kevin Glazebrook: School of Management, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JY, United Kingdom
Alan Washburn: Operations Research Department, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California 93943

Operations Research, 2004, vol. 52, issue 3, 454-463

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: decision analysis; sequential; dynamic programming/optimal control; Markov finite state; Markov infinite state; military; targeting; probability; Markov processes; stochastic model applications (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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