Search Theory And U-Boats In The Bay Of Biscay

Search Theory And U-Boats In The Bay Of Biscay
Author: Captain R. Gregory Carl
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2015-11-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 178625316X

Threats to our nation’s resources and forces are becoming increasingly lethal and mobile. Therefore, our ability to locate and interdict these threats is more important than ever. Search theory is one tool that is vital to countering the increasing threat. This research presents a multi-agent simulation, built around the allied search for U-boats in the Bay of Biscay during World War II, which extends several classic search theory algorithms. Comparison of techniques is based on the effectiveness of finding high-valued, mobile assets. A JAVA-based multi-agent simulation model is designed, built and tested, and used to demonstrate the existence of differing emergent behaviors between search patterns currently used by the United States military.

Search Theory and U-Boats in the Bay of Biscay

Search Theory and U-Boats in the Bay of Biscay
Author: R. Gregory Carl
Publisher:
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2003-03
Genre: Search theory
ISBN: 9781423548324

Threats to our nation's resources and forces are becoming increasingly lethal and mobile. Therefore, our ability to locate and interdict these threats is more important than ever. Search theory is one tool that is vital to countering the increasing threat. This research presents a multi-agent simulation, built around the Allied search for U-boats in the Bay of Biscay during World War II, which extends several classic search theory algorithms. Comparison of techniques is based on the effectiveness of finding high- valued, mobile assets. A JAVA-based multi-agent simulation model is designed, built and tested, and used to demonstrate the existence of differing emergent behaviors between search patterns currently used by the United States military.

Search Theory and U-Boats in the Bay of Biscay

Search Theory and U-Boats in the Bay of Biscay
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2003
Genre:
ISBN:

Threats to our nation's resources and forces are becoming increasingly lethal and mobile. Therefore, our ability to locate and interdict these threats is more important than ever. Search theory is one tool that is vital to countering the increasing threat. This research presents a multi-agent simulation, built around the Allied search for U-boats in the Bay of Biscay during World War II, which extends several classic search theory algorithms. Comparison of techniques is based on the effectiveness of finding high- valued, mobile assets. A JAVA-based multi-agent simulation model is designed, built and tested, and used to demonstrate the existence of differing emergent behaviors between search patterns currently used by the United States military.

Game Theory and U-Boats in the Bay of Biscay

Game Theory and U-Boats in the Bay of Biscay
Author: Joseph C. Price
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2003-03-01
Genre: Game theory
ISBN: 9781423505082

Analysis of a large combat campaign using game theory is difficult due to non- linearities and other soft factors which exist in a complex system. However, game theory can give decision makers insight into strategies and outcomes that can be utilized to maximize one's objective. Agent-based simulation provides the means to model complex systems with non-linearities, by allowing for interactions among independent "agents." This thesis investigates game-theoretic strategies in agent-based simulation, modeled after the Allied search for U-boats in the Bay of Biscay during World War II (WWII). It also looks into the effects of adaptation on strategies by comparison to fixed- strategy results.

Search and Rescue with Geographic Information Systems

Search and Rescue with Geographic Information Systems
Author: Emrah Söylemez
Publisher: S Press
Total Pages: 109
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Search and Rescue with Geographic Information Systems:Search and rescue operations are spatial activities. Search planners must combine information on where the missing object was last seen, likely routes, and maps of the areas already searched, time last searched, and available resources to effectively mount a search area. The main problem is to produce the reliable probability maps, which accounts for these clues. And Geographic Informaiton System is the best tool for Search and Rescue operations.

Restart Strategies

Restart Strategies
Author: Jan-Hendrik Lorenz
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2021-10-12
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3754396579

Restarting is a technique employed by many algorithms. For some problems, restarts improve the runtimes by orders of magnitude. This thesis considers several aspects of restarts. In addition to complexity-theoretical properties, we also study methods for constructing optimal restart strategies. On the practical side, we apply restarts to significantly improve the performance of a SAT solver.

Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Author: Yuqing Sun
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 683
Release: 2023-05-12
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9819923859

This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th CCF Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, ChineseCSCW 2022 held in Datong, China, during September 23–25, 2022. The 60 full papers and 30 short papers included in this two-volume set were carefully reviewed and selected from 211 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: answer set programming; Social Media and Online Communities, Collaborative Mechanisms, Models, Approaches, Algorithms and Systems; Crowd Intelligence and Crowd Cooperative Computing; Cooperative Evolutionary Computation and Human-like Intelligent Collaboration; Domain-Specific Collaborative Applications.

Maritime Strategy and Sea Control

Maritime Strategy and Sea Control
Author: Milan Vego
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2016-04-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317439848

This book focuses on the key naval strategic objectives of obtaining and maintaining sea control. During times of war, sea control, or the ability of combatants to enjoy naval dominance, plays a crucial role in that side’s ability to attain overall victory. This book explains and analyzes in much greater detail sea control in all its complexities, and describes the main methods of obtaining and maintaining it. Building on the views of naval classical thinkers, this book utilizes historical examples to illustrate the main methods of sea control. Each chapter focuses on a particular method, including destroying the enemy forces by a decisive action, destroying enemy forces over time-attrition, containing enemy fleet, choke point control, and capturing important enemy's positions/basing area, The aim is to provide a comprehensive theory and practice of the struggle for sea control at the operational level. It should therefore provide a guide to practitioners on how to plan and conduct operational warfare at sea. The book will be of much interest to students of naval strategy, defence studies and security studies.

Exercising Control of the Sea

Exercising Control of the Sea
Author: Milan Vego
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2020-10-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000196054

This book explains both the strategic and the operational aspects of exercising control of the sea. The struggle for sea control consists of three mutually related and overlapping phases: obtaining, maintaining and exercising sea control. It is in the phase of exercising sea control when one’s strategic or operational success is exploited; otherwise, the fruits of victories achieved would be wasted. This work describes the strategy of a stronger side in wartime after a desired degree of control has been obtained, which is followed by a discussion on the objectives and main methods used in exercising sea control. The remaining chapters explain and analyze in some detail each of the main methods of exercising sea control: defence and protection of one’s own and destruction/neutralization of the enemy’s military-economic potential at sea, capturing the enemy’s operationally important positions ashore, destroying/weakening the enemy’s military-economic potential ashore and supporting one’s ground forces in their offensive and defensive operations on the coast. This book will be of much interest to students of strategic studies, sea power and naval history.