Shoot-look-shoot: A review and extension

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Glazebrook, K; Washburn, A
• 署名单位: University of Edinburgh; United States Department of Defense; United States Navy; Naval Postgraduate School
• 刊物名称: OPERATIONS RESEARCH
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0030-364X
• DOI: 10.1287/opre.1030.0086
• 发表日期: 2004
• 页码: 454-463
• 关键词: decision analysis; Sequential; dynamic programming/optimal control; Markov finite state; Markov infinite state; military; targeting; probability; Markov processes; stochastic model applications

摘要

We consider the optimal use of information in shooting at a collection of targets, generally with the object of maximizing the average number (or value) of targets killed. The shooting problem is viewed as a Markov decision process, and the modal solution technique is stochastic dynamic programming. Information obtained about target status may or may not be perfect, and there may or may not be constraints on the number of shots. Previous results are reviewed, and some new results are obtained.