Survey of the research on dynamic weapon-target assignment problem

1 .INTRODUCTIONThe nature of modern war has been changed withthe advent of long-range and precision weapons ,together with advanced sensors and informationsystems1].Compared with the traditional warfareinindustrial age , great revolution has taken placein the modern war in the information age ,in suchfields as the operational theory ,structure of armyand the way of command and control (C2) . Withthe development of newtechnology ,the operationstyle of modern warfare has been changing from…

Survey of the research on dynamic weapon-target assignment problem

The basic concepts and models of weapon-target assignment (WTA) are introduced and the mathematical nature of the WTA models is also analyzed. A systematic survey of research on WTA problem is provided. The present research on WTA is focused on models and algorithms. In the research on models of WTA, the static WTA models are mainly studied and the dynamic WTA models are not fully studied in deed. In the research on algorithms of WTA, the intelligent algorithms are often used to solve the WTA problem. The small scale of static WTA problems has been solved very well, however, the large scale of dynamic WTA problems has not been solved effectively so far. Finally, the characteristics of dynamic WTA are analyzed and directions for the future research on dynamic WTA are discussed.