Attrition through a partially coordinated area defense

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 74-81

  Al Mutairi, Dhaifalla K ^a   Soland, Richard M ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b George Washington University   (United States)

Author keywords

Attrition models; Degree of coordination; Optimal allocation; Random fire; Stochastic dominance; Uniform fire

Indexed keywords

ATTRITION MODELS; DEGREE OF COORDINATION; OPTIMAL ALLOCATION; RANDOM FIRE; STOCHASTIC DOMINANCE; UNIFORM FIRE;

CONTROL EQUIPMENT; MILITARY OPERATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; ORDNANCE; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VECTORS;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 13144255749     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nav.20060     Document Type: Article

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