Accession Number:
AD0415434
Title:
MINIMAX PREDICTION AND AN EVASION GAME.
Descriptive Note:
Interim research memo.,
Corporate Author:
CENTER FOR NAVAL ANALYSES ALEXANDRIA VA OPERATIONS EVALUATION GROUP
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1963-06-06
Pagination or Media Count:
30.0
Abstract:
The problem of determining how an evading target should maneuver to survive a lethal weapon, and reciprocally, how the attacker or marksman should aim and when he should fire is, in its general form, much too complex for a satisfactory solution. In this paper, an idealized version of the problem is formulated and solved as a 2 person zero sum game. The game is shown to have a saddle point with pure strategies. The evader moves in one dimension and is constrained to choose from a class of Gaussian processes. The marksman uses linear prediction theory, observing the complete past history of the evaders motion. Author