A Target-Assignment Problem

The Weapon-Target Assignment Problem

The Online Target Date Assignment Problem

Many online problems encountered in real-life involve a two-stage decision process: upon arrival of a new request, an irrevocable first-stage decision (the assignment of a specific resource to the request) must be made immediately, while in a second stage process, certain ”subinstances” (that is, the instances of all requests assigned to a particular resource) can be solved to optimality (offli...

A Lagrange Relaxation Method for Solving Weapon-Target Assignment Problem

We study the weapon-target assignment WTA problem which has wide applications in the area of defense-related operations research. This problem calls for finding a proper assignment of weapons to targets such that the total expected damaged value of the targets to be maximized. The WTA problem can be formulated as a nonlinear integer programming problem which is known to be NP-complete. There do...

A Genetic Algorithm Approach to the Artillery Target Assignment Problem

In this work a new assignment problem with the name “Artillery Target Assignment Problem (ATAP)” is defined. ATAP is about assigning artillery guns to targets at different time instances while some objective functions are to be optimized. Since an assignment made for any time instance effect the value of the shooting ATAP is harder than the classical assignment problem. As far as the objective ...

A Honey Bee Algorithm To Solve Quadratic Assignment Problem

Assigning facilities to locations is one of the important problems, which significantly is influence in transportation cost reduction. In this study, we solve quadratic assignment problem (QAP), using a meta-heuristic algorithm with deterministic tasks and equality in facilities and location number. It should be noted that any facility must be assign to only one location. In this paper, first o...