The Development of the Research on Weapon-Target Assignment(WTA) Problem

This paper offers a brief overview of research on weapon-target assignment(WTA) problem.The concepts and the basic model of WTA are introduced and the mathematical nature of WTA problem is also analyzed.Meanwhile,the main content of the research on WTA is also introduced.The current research on WTA is focused on its models and algorithms.In the research on models of WTA,the static WTA models are mainly studied and the dynamic WTA models are not studied in deed.In the research on algorithms of WTA,the intelligent algorithms are often used to resolve the WTA problem.The small scale of static WTA problems have been solved very well,however,the large scale of dynamic WTA problems have not been solved effectively by so far.