Plan Failure Analysis and Plan Adaptation for Multi-Level Campaign Planning

Abstract

The military campaign planning process involves multiple commanders at different levels of command and with different areas of responsibility. In such a highly interdependent and data-intensive activity, it becomes difficult to coordinate all plans and plan components to generate a joint plan free of inconsistencies, or even to track the source of an inconsistency, let alone repair it. This paper presents a plan management approach based on Hierarchical Task Networks. It demonstrates how this approach can be developed into a system for visual analysis of plans, plan validation and monitoring, and explains on a practical example how such a system can trace failures through different levels of command, so as to detect and repair inconsistencies between plans.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA547070

Entities

People

  • Jens Happe
  • Micheline Belanger
  • Mohamad Allouche

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Command And Control
  • Engineering
  • Failure Analysis
  • Human Systems Integration
  • Military Operations
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Planning
  • Models
  • Monitoring
  • Navigation
  • Operations Research
  • Prototypes
  • Scheduling (Production)
  • Systems Engineering
  • Trajectories

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  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Software Engineering.