DocumentCode
1871958
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
fYear
1997
fDate
13-16 Apr 1997
Firstpage
563
Lastpage
568
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Evolutionary Computation, 1997., IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Indianapolis, IN
Print_ISBN
0-7803-3949-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICEC.1997.592374
Filename
592374
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