A MODEL FOR ALLOCATING INTERCEPTORS FROM OVERLAPPING BATTERIES: A METHOD OF DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING.

This paper develops a model for the optimum allocation of fixed stockpiles of interceptors. Imbedded dynamic programming and successive approximations serve as the format for the computational scheme. This procedure leads to a local optimum solution in general and to the global optimum in certain instances. A method for determining upper bounds is included in the algorithm so that optimal stopping rules may be used to choose a final solution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]