“…The framework we consider is common to military weapon target engagements (Aviv & Kress, 1997;Kisi, 1976;Mastran & Thomas, 1973), shooting problems (Glazebrook & Washburn, 2004;Sato, 1997a), cybersecurity (Gao, Zhong, & Mei, 2013;Hu, Xu, Xu, & Zhao, 2017), attacker-defender games (Levitin & Hausken, 2012), and more broadly to stochastic sequential resource allocation (Sato, 1996(Sato, , 1997b. In sequential assignment problems of the kind considered herein, the decision rule usually takes the form, attack the target iff its value is no less than a certain threshold c, where the optimal c is to be determined.…”