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Attrition through a partially coordinated area defense
Author(s) -
AlMutairi Dhaifalla K.,
Soland Richard M.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
naval research logistics (nrl)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.665
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1520-6750
pISSN - 0894-069X
DOI - 10.1002/nav.20060
Subject(s) - attrition , computer security , computer science , business , operations research , computer network , mathematics , medicine , dentistry
Abstract An area defense consists of several groups that act independently, i.e., do not communicate with each other. Each group has a fixed number of defenders and a controller that allocates these defenders optimally against the individual attackers comprising an attack. We analyze the effectiveness of this partially coordinated defense against a simultaneous attack of known size in which all attackers are considered to be equally lethal. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2005.