DESIGN OF A SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT FOR TACTICAL SITUATION DEVELOPMENT
Michael J. Coombs, Julian R. Thompson · 1999
This paper concerns the development of a prototype Tactical Situation Development Environment (TSDE) which will aid intelligence analysts to construct and evaluate future situational projections and will support this function by maintaining appropriate models of the current situation. Conventional automated problem solvers have failed in these tasks because they are deterministic, being designed to solve pre-determined problems using pre-defined sets of knowledge and data. They are unable to accommodate the uncertainty and dynamic events characteristic of the realistic battlefield. In contrast, we have employed a general-purpose automated problem solving architecture- Model Generative Reasoning (MGR)- designed for information processing in noisy and ill-specified problem domains. The MGR architecture is currently being developed for a number of military information integration applications, including meteorological data fusion, situation analysis and deception planning. The Computing Research Laboratory is principally funded by the