Title :
A decision aid for theater missile defense
Author :
Pepyne, David L. ; Looze, Douglas P. ; Logan, David A. ; Sandell, Nils R., Jr. ; LeBlanc, Robert
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Massachusetts Univ., Amherst, MA, USA
Abstract :
The Theater Missile Defense Problem of placing interceptor batteries to defend assets against an intermediate range ballistic missile threat is formulated as a constrained optimization problem. Discontinuities and the existence of many local minima prevent the application of gradient based optimization techniques. A genetic algorithm is employed to overcome these features of the problem. Implementation details are provided, and numerical results are presented
Keywords :
decision support systems; genetic algorithms; military computing; missiles; constrained optimization problem; decision aid; genetic algorithm; implementation details; interceptor batteries; intermediate range ballistic missile threat; local minima; numerical results; theater missile defense; Batteries; Chemicals; Cities and towns; Constraint optimization; Genetic algorithms; Military computing; Missiles; Protection; Terrorism; Weapons;
Conference_Titel :
Evolutionary Computation, 1997., IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Indianapolis, IN
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3949-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICEC.1997.592374
