Inferencing in Support of Active Templates

Abstract

The primary accomplishments of this project include the following: (1) HICAP is a general purpose planning architecture to assist military commanders with planning NEOs (Noncombatant Evacuation Operations). HICAP integrates a hierarchical task editor with a planning tool. Military planners select a task to decompose in the task editor and then use the planning tool to interactively refine it into an operational plan. (2) SHOP and SHOP2 are some simple, practical planning tools based on HTN planning. Their practical utility is shown by the mergence of an active set of users, which include government laboratories, industrial R&D projects, and academic settings. SHOP2 received one of the top four awards in the 2002 International Planning Competition. (3) The Air Force Research Laboratory's Causal Analysis Tool (CAT) is a system for creating and analyzing causal models similar to Bayesian networks. We have enhanced CAT by developing an approach to quickly generate plans that have high probabilities of success.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA431023

Entities

People

  • Dana S. Nau

Organizations

  • University of Maryland

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Bayesian Networks
  • Birds
  • Computer Programming
  • Control Systems
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • Ground Control Stations
  • Lisp Programming Language
  • Military Operations
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Research
  • Models
  • Personnel Management
  • Probability
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Neural Network Machine Learning.
  • Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy