Assessing Resource Value and Relationships Between Objectives in Effects-Based Operations

<p>The purpose of this research was developing techniques to calculate the value of aresource within the context of campaign objectives to identify competing objectives andto identify conflicting objectives to improve a commander's ability to allocate limitedresources. A methodology was developed to express a campaign's objective hierarchy interms of a set of desired end states for the campaign's system of systems. Value theorywas used to identify the resource's value in terms of the direct and indirect effects that areproduced to achieve the campaign's objectives. Binding resource constraints within aninteger program were used to identify the objectives that competed for the simultaneoususe of limited resources. Conflicting objectives were identified using interaction tables.Collectively the research translated doctrinal effects-based operational concepts intoactionable processes within deliberate planning and crisis action planning horizons.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>