Although sensor resource management and weapon–target assignment problems have been well studied, there is currently no well-posed mathematical formulation that captures the interactions of these problems in the context of a missile defense scenario. This paper gives a representative example to illustrate this fact; then, it poses a method for navigating the abstraction space for the integrated problem of sensors, weapons, and targets based on the specification of information sharing between subproblems. This method begins by outlining a set of formulation classes to specify the way in which information is shared; from this set, some formulation schemata (particular instantiations of a mathematical models that subscribe to the rules of a formulation class) are suggested. A set of goodness criteria for selecting which formulation classes and formulation schemata best address the problem-absent simulation results is considered. Last, the benefits and shortcomings of these formulation classes and formulation schemata, as well as areas for future work, are discussed.


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    Title :

    Developing Mathematical Formulations for the Integrated Problem of Sensors, Weapons, and Targets


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    Publication date :

    2016-03-31


    Size :

    16 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English