Intelligent Agent Technology in Command and Control Environment
Edward Dawidowicz · 1999
The Intelligent Agent (IA) technology has applications in the following areas of military Command and Control (C2): logistics, combat planning and battle plan execution monitoring. C2 information extraction should not rely on using simple database queries, since the amount of data available to the commander on the modern battlefield can be overwhelming. In order to make informed decisions; the commander must have immediate access to specific information in real time. The available data therefore, must be parsed in such a way as to extract only the specific information required by the commander. The ever-increasing volume of data in the C2 environment thus requires the use of IAs to extract relevant information for the commander in real time. The paper describes an application of IA in assisting a decision-maker, i.e. the military commander, by extracting needed information from a large amount of data and triggering an alarm when certain critical conditions are reached. The open architecture proposed here not only allows effective IA implementation but also expansion of future IA applications, as needs demand. This paper is a continuation of earlier work [Ref. 1,2,3].