In scenarios of military operations and catastrophes – even when there is no infrastructure available or left – there is a need for communication. Due to the specific context the communication systems used in these tactical scenarios need to be as reliable as possible. Thus, the performance of these systems has to be evaluated. Beside field-tests, computer simulations are an interesting alterna...

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This paper investigates the integration of strategic and tactical decisions in the supply chain network design (SCND) considering assembly line balancing (ALB) under demand uncertainty. Due to the decentralized decisions, a novel bi-level stochastic programming (BLSP) model has been developed in which SCND problem has been considered in the upper-level model, while the lower-level model contain...

time, flexibly use a small amount of tactical Abstract knowledge about two classes of one-versusThis article reports on recent progress one (1-v-1) Beyond Visual Range (BVR) in the development of TacAir-Soar, an tactical air scenarios. In the non-jinking intelligent automated agent for tactical air bogey scenarios, one plane (the non-jinking simulation. This includes progress in bogey) is unarm...

In this paper we present our work on the Manycast Architecture for Service-Oriented Tactical Operations, or MASCOT, a project between the University of Masschusetts, Dartmouth and the United States Marine Corps (USMC). MASCOT is a service that can be used by the Combat Operation Centers (COCs) to efficiently allocate tactical field resources given a task request, or mission, and set of constrai...

Concurrent mental workload degrades some aspects of driving performance, but drivers might be able to modify their behaviour adaptively to accommodate cognitive impairments. For example, they might maintain longer vehicle headway in dual-task conditions to compensate for slowed response times. Studies documenting such adaptive behaviours typically use steady-state driving scenarios such as car ...

Multi-objective optimization (MOO) is the process of optimizing multiple objective functions concurrently and systematically. Modern Army missions require a tactical network to achieve multiple objectives as multiple parties with different objectives are involved in collaborative mission execution. MOO problems have been studied extensively in the field of coalition formation based on evolution...

The tactical land command, control, communications, computer and intelligence structure is essentially an array of complex and dynamic systems of systems. In this paper we address a capability deficiency in the identification and analysis of critical information requirements, flows and processes to support decision-making within this tactical structure. We accomplish this by incorporating model...

The article presents a concept of Dezert-Smarandache theory application for enhancing security in tactical mobile adhoc network. Tactical MANET, due to its specification, requires collection and processing of information from different sources of diverse security and trust metrics. The authors specify the needs for building a node’s situational awareness and identify data sources used for calcu...