User's Manual for the Prototype Analyst Workstation (PAWS)

Abstract

The Prototype Analyst Workstation (PAWS) is a personal-computer-based decision aid intelligence analysts can use to evaluate alternative enemy courses of action. It assists analysts in assigning weights to attributes and scoring alternative enemy courses of action so that they can compute an overall evaluation of each course of action. PAWS also has a facility for Bayesian updating of probabilities over the courses of action as the analyst receives new intelligence information. This report is a manual for analysts who need to understand how to run PAWS to solve intelligence problems, computer system managers who need to understand how to configure PAWS and its associated files on a computer system, and for persons who need to develop new materials for use with PAWS (i.e., new text and graphics descriptions of problem scenarios and new hierarchies of factors for evaluating enemy courses of action). Situation assessment, Intelligence analysis, Decision aid, Multi-attribute decision theory.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA221351

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  • Dave Thompson
  • Henry Rueter
  • Joseph Orosz
  • William Rainaldi

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  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy