Timeliness Analysis of Target Information
LU Dai-jun, Xuezhi Xia · Fire Control and Command Control · 2007
The situation of battlefield is ever changing with time.Having its lifecycle,targets' information which characterizes the states of targets should be generated and provided to users timely.The concepts of value and information timeliness are presented to assess if targets' information provided by C~4ISR system meets the time requirements of the maneuver.The decay of Information value due to time delay would debase the information utilities.Via the analysis of influence of time delays of information to the quality of decisions and to damage probability,timeliness of information applied to decision making and engagement is discussed respectively.