Title: Weapon target assignment problem: multi-objective formulation, optimisation using MOPSO and TOPSIS

Authors: Bhabani Shankar Prasad Mishra; Euiwhan Kim; Guck-Cheol Bang; Satchidananda Dehuri; S-B. Cho

Addresses: School of Computer Engineering, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar 754024, Odisha, India ' Department of Systems Engineering, Ajou University, San 5, Woncheon-dong, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon 443-749, South Korea ' Department of Systems Engineering, Ajou University, San 5, Woncheon-dong, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon 443-749, South Korea ' Department of Information and Communication Technology, Fakir Mohan University, Vyasa Vihar, Balasore 756019, Odisha, India ' Soft Computing Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Yonsei University, 262 Seongsanno, Seodaemun-gu, 120-749, South Korea

Abstract: In this paper, a static weapon target assignment problem is studied by optimising the conflicting criteria like shooting failure and number of weapons used to destroy the targets. The inherent intractability and conflicting objectives of this problem motivated us to use multi-objective particle swarm optimisation (MOPSO) to uncover the true Pareto front. We first employ the MOPSO to uncover the Pareto front. Secondly, a ranking method called techniques for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) is used to sort the non-dominated solutions by the preference of decision maker (DM). A numerical experiment on two test cases has been conducted to realise the efficacy of the method. The experimental work is offering large number of solutions in the Pareto front, which may create problem to DM for effective decision. Therefore, by TOPSIS a prioritised set of non-dominated solutions is provided to DM, which fits the preference under different situations.

Keywords: multi-objective optimisation; weapon target assignment; particle swarm optimisation; multi-objective PSO; Pareto front; TOPSIS; MOPSO; military operations.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIDSS.2015.075483

International Journal of Intelligent Defence Support Systems, 2015 Vol.5 No.3, pp.226 - 252

Received: 16 Mar 2015
Accepted: 26 Oct 2015
Published online: 24 Mar 2016 *

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