BATTLE - An Expert Decision Aid for Fire Support Command and Control

Abstract

We have implemented an expert consultant system (called BATTLE) to aid in the assignment of a particular set of weapons to a set of targets, given a battlefield situation. BATTLE illustrates the application of several artificial intelligence techniques to a decision aid for the Marine Corps. A pruned tree traversal, though not guaranteed to discover the 'optimal' solution, will attack the problem of assigning targets from the viewpoint of finding a globally optimal assignment plan. This should be an improvement on present algorithms that optimize weapon to target assignments only in a local sense. Inference networks allow BATTLE to consider many relevant environmental conditions while making its decisions. The use of dynamic inference networks allows military experts to update the program and keep it consistent with changes in military doctrine without actually altering the computer code. These design considerations should be useful in some future version of the Marine Integrated Fire and Air Support System (MIFASS), the current decision aid under production for the Marine Corps.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 08, 1982
Accession Number
ADA116414

Entities

People

  • E. Halpern
  • Jonathan E. Slagle
  • R. Cantone

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artillery Units
  • Battlefields
  • Classification
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Fire Support
  • Genetic Algorithms
  • Information Systems
  • Probability
  • Security
  • Warfare
  • Weapons

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Applied Combinatorial Optimization and Logic Circuit Design.
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • AI & ML - Machine Learning Algorithms
  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control