Modeling and control of a joint air operations environment with imperfect information

Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4716, Issue , 2002, Pages 41-51

  Curry, Michael L ^a   Wohletz, Jerry M ^a   Castañon, David A ^b   Cassandras, Christos G ^c  

^a BAE SYSTEMS   (United Kingdom)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Imperfect Information; Markov Decision Process; Mission Planning; Resource Allocation; Stochastic Optimal Control

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

JOINT AIR OPERATIONS (JAO); MISSION PLANNING;

MILITARY OPERATIONS;

EID: 0036030527     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.474900     Document Type: Article

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