Support for situation awareness in command and control
K. T. Wallenius · 2004
www.nada.kth.se/~klasw Abstract – To support the work by military commanders and staffs, this paper presents a classification of different support tools, including Command Support, Decision Support, Multi-Sensor Fusion, and Information Fusion. Together, these tools would facilitate shared Situation Awareness, including knowledge of friendly as well as hostile, forces on different levels of abstraction. Externalizing the situation awareness, a Common Situation Model enables the integration of these support tools but also the collaboration between individuals. The main emphasis is thus on the ontology of this model, representing the language by which the situation may be described. Consequently, a UML Class Diagram is proposed that expresses a conceptual model of the Command and Control domain. This model is generic since it could be adapted to different situations.