as representing the fire units 12 output processing elements 24 are shown representing the assets 16 connective lines 26 between the input processing elements 22 and output processing elements 24 are depicted which provide connections between each input processing element 22 and each output processing element 24 the particular fire unit fu represented by each processing element 22 is designated by the subscript i while the asset 15 represented by the processing element 24 is represented by subscript j each connective line 26 is represented as a i j where i and j designate the processing elements connected by the particular connective line 26 referring now to fig2 b a flow chart 28 for the connectionist architecture for weapons assignment cwa system 20 in accordance with the present invention is shown the first block 30 in the flow chart 28 is labeled 34 initialize connections assignments 34 in this step the connections shown as lines 26 in fig2 a are initialized to be a connections a are a function of rnd a random number u00d7 m u00d7 c u00d7 v where a ij is the connection 34 strength 34 between fire unit i and asset j the random number may be a uniform pseudo random number which is a continuously variable value between 0 and 1 m is the number of missiles in fu i c is the coverage of fu i the coverage c may be a between 0 or 1 where a 0 indicates that the asset j is outside of the coverage of the fire unit i and a 1 indicates that asset j is within the coverage of fire unit i v is equal to the value of.