An AI approach to data fusion and situation assessment
W.L. Lakin, J. A. Miles · Institution of Engineering and Technology eBooks · 1987
This contribution describes our research programme at ARE to introduce knowledge-based systems to problems in command and control. Although we are most interested in applications for the Royal Navy, the fundamental requirements are common to most command and control systems and we hope the generality of the concepts will be apparent. The purpose of command and control is to achieve some desired objectives using available resources to best effect. Because these resources usually involve many individuals, both men and machines, a considerable amount of communication and information handling, including intelligence, must take place hence C3I. The reason for the complexity of C3I systems is that they have to tackle very large problems in a complex unpredictable environment. It is these characteristics which generate the need for so much human skill, judgment and intuition and which have caused computers to make such little inroad into the more intellectual processes in command and control. With the arrival of expert systems, however, there is renewed enthusiasm to encapsulate human expertise in computer software, and C3I is an obvious field for attention.