Lanchester equation for cognitive domain using hesitant fuzzy linguistic terms sets

Intelligent wars can take place not only in the physical domain and information domain but also in the cognitive domain. The cognitive domain will become the key domain to win in the future intelligent war. A Lanchester equation considering cognitive domain is proposed to fit the development tendency intelligent wars in this paper. One party is considered to obtain the exponential enhancement advantage on combat forces in combat if it can gain an advantage in the cognitive domain over the other party according to the systemic advantage function. The operational effectiveness of the cognitive domain in war is considered to consist of a series of indicators. Hesitant fuzzy sets and linguistic term sets are powerful tools when evaluating indicators, hence the indicators are scored by experts using hesitant fuzzy linguistic terms sets here. A unique hesitant fuzzy hybrid arithmetical averaging operator is used to aggregate the evaluation.

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The paper proposes a Lanchester equation that considers the cognitive domain to fit the development of intelligent wars. The importance of the cognitive domain and the evaluation of operational effectiveness are analyzed.