Accession Number:

AD0745143

Title:

Interdiction of a Transportation Network

Descriptive Note:

Master's thesis

Corporate Author:

NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA

Personal Author(s):

• Preston, Jr, Charles P.

Report Date:

1972-03-01

Pagination or Media Count:

58.0

Abstract:

The problem of determining the optimum allocation of aircraft to an airstrike against a transportation network is investigated. The damage function is assumed to be exponential. A solution procedure is developed using dynamic programming and integer solutions are found. The number of aircraft to be assigned to the airstrike is considered a decision variable. A sensitivity analysis is run to determine the optimum value for this variable.

Descriptors:

• *MILITARY SUPPLIES
• *MILITARY TRANSPORTATION
• ALGORITHMS
• COMPUTER PROGRAMS
• DECISION THEORY
• DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING
• KILL PROBABILITIES
• MATHEMATICAL MODELS
• NETWORKS
• TACTICAL BOMBING
• THESES
• TOPOLOGY
• VULNERABILITY

Subject Categories:

• Operations Research
• Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE