Planning-based integrated decision support systems
Marie A. Bienkowski, Marie Ellen Desjardins · 1994
This paper describes a system that uses AI planning and representation techniques as the core of a decision support system. * The planning technology is supplemented with other AI and non-AI technologies. The overall system and initial application domain, military operations planning, are described first. We then describe the integration of SIPE-2, a generative planning system, with three independently-developed AI systems: a temporal reasoning engine, a case-based force selection module, a system for scheduling and capacity analysis. 1 INTRODUCTION In tackling a real-world problem with an AI solution, it is not uncommon to find that a single AI system fails to meet all the problem requirements. In some cases, existing software can be integrated (or must be used) with the AI solution; or the AI system must be altered to fit the new problem (e.g., with a customized user interface); or new software must be added to round out the capabilities of the single system. In this paper, we rep...