Technical Note--Optimal Strategy for the One-against-Many Battle

Very often during the course of a battle one unit finds itself in a situation in which it has to face many hostile units. This note deals with this situation and presents a method for optimizing the order in which hostile units are attacked, for situations in which the times required to kill individ...

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Published in:Operations research 1977-10, Vol.25 (5), p.884-888
Main Author: Friedman, Yoram
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Very often during the course of a battle one unit finds itself in a situation in which it has to face many hostile units. This note deals with this situation and presents a method for optimizing the order in which hostile units are attacked, for situations in which the times required to kill individual units are exponentially distributed.
ISSN:0030-364X
1526-5463
DOI:10.1287/opre.25.5.884