C3 modeling with symmetrical rationality

摘要

In the absence of contrary information, it would seem prudent for competitors to attribute to their opposition the same level of rationality they attribute to themselves. In the context of a simple but interesting C3 (command, control, and communication) model presented in Ref. [3], a method is proposed for incorporating symmetrical rationality without resorting to the general multistage game framework which has proved difficult to apply in practice. A technique is suggested for the approximate solution of the resulting C3 model which does not require integration operations, and which appears to be especially well suited for C3 problems with finite admissible control sets.