Optimal Weapon Allocation with Overlapping Area Defenses
- 1 December 1973
- journal article
- Published by Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in Operations Research
- Vol. 21 (6) , 1291-1308
- https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.21.6.1291
Abstract
We present a strategy for finding an optimal allocation of weapons to maximize the expected damage of a given collection of targets. In our scenario the area defenses can overlap, and we allow more than one weapon type. We show how the generalized Lagrange-multiplier method can be used effectively by exploiting certain graph structure when maximizing the Lagrangian.Keywords
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