Title: An improved information entropy for the integrated emergency-defence system capability evaluation

Authors: Wei Shi; Shuai Deng; Shuanglin Li

Addresses: Strategic Consultation and Evaluation Center, Academy of Military Sciences, Peking, China ' School of Safety and Management Engineering, Hunan Institute of Technology Hengyang, China ' School of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China

Abstract: To evaluate the capability of an integrated emergency-defence system (IEDS), a dissipative structure model based on information entropy is established, which comprehensively considers the characteristics of IEDS and the relevant theory of information entropy. In this paper, we first provide a method to construct IED loop (IEDL) based on the theory of observation-direction-determination-action (OODA) to describe the relationships among the entities of IEDS. Secondly, in order to counter the uncertainty of the information exist in the IEDLs, an improved information entropy is proposed to measure the capability of IEDLs. After the capabilities of several IEDLs belonging to the IEDS network model are aggregated, the capability of the whole IEDS can be evaluated. The proposed capability evaluation method provides ideas and methods for analysing the gap in the capability between the actual and target and optimising the system architecture.

Keywords: integration; emergency-defence system; information entropy; evaluation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAAC.2024.138211

International Journal of Automation and Control, 2024 Vol.18 No.3, pp.263 - 280

Received: 12 Oct 2022
Accepted: 03 Jan 2023
Published online: 30 Apr 2024 *

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