DIAGRAMMATIC REASONING IN SUPPORT OF SITUATION UNDERSTANDING AND PLANNING
B. Chandrasekaran, John R. Josephson, Bonny Banerjee, Unmesh Kurup, Robert Winkler · 2002
Visual representations consisting of terrain maps with an overlay of diagrammatic elements are ubiquitous in Army situation understanding, planning and plan monitoring. The Objective Force requirements of responsiveness, agility and versatility call for digitized graphical decision support interfaces that automate or otherwise help in various reasoning tasks. The main purpose of the paper is to describe the issues involved in building a diagrammatic reasoning system, specifications for a diagrammatic representation formalism, and an architecture for problem solving with diagrams. We have begun implementation of an application that infers maneuvers from data, obtained from an exercise at the National Training Center, about locations and motions of Blue and Red forces. We present algorithms used in the initial stages of an implementation.