Using the Entropy Weighting Scheme in Military Decision Making
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Authors
Fox, William P.
Burks, Robert E.
Spence, Gregory
Kitchen, Reed
Powell, Steven
Subjects
Center of gravity
TOPSIS
simple additive weights (SAW)
CARVER
decision weights
multi-attribute decision making
terrorist rankings
sensitivity analysis
entropy method
ratio method
rank order centroid method
TOPSIS
simple additive weights (SAW)
CARVER
decision weights
multi-attribute decision making
terrorist rankings
sensitivity analysis
entropy method
ratio method
rank order centroid method
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Date of Issue
2019-05-15
Date
2019-05-15
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Sage Journals
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Abstract
This article compares the entropy weight scheme to other subjective weighting schemes using various multi-attribute decision making criteria. We apply the entropy weighting scheme to improve the CARVER center of gravity analysis and targeting analysis that are currently used by Special Operations Forces. We also compare the entropy weighing schemes to other weighting schemes using the ranking of terrorist for targeting. Next, we apply several multi-attribute decision making (MADM) methods using our suggested various weighting schemes to obtain the rankings of the alternatives. We compare the results and provide sensitivity analysis to examine the robustness of each MADM analysis. We conclude that any decision methodology for CARVER and terrorist ranking that used the actual data collected to compute the weights might be a better method than subjective weights.
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Article
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The article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1548512919850380
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Defense Analysis (DA)
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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10 p.
Citation
Fox, W. P., Spence, G., Kitchen, R., & Powell, S. (2019). Using the Entropy Weighting Scheme in Military Decision Making. The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation. https://doi.org/10.1177/1548512919850380
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.