Decision support system for fire support command and control
An expert consultant system for weapon allocation has been implemented at the Naval Research Laboratory. This system, BATTLE, combines two important tools of artificial intelligence to generate improved weapon allocation plans for the marine integrated fire and air support system based on information provided by forward observers using digital communications terminals. First, the effectiveness of each individual weapon against each prospective target is computed using a computation network similar to the networks of prospector. The networks used in battle are generalized to allow nonprobabilistic reasoning and to use a criterion called merit for efficient direction of information acquisition. After the calculation of individual effectiveness values, a weapon allocation tree is constructed to determine good allocation plans for the ensemble of weapons. The individual effectiveness values are used to direct the traversal and pruning of this allocation tree and to select the best allocation plans. This method of search succeeds in finding a globally optimal weapon allocation plan. 8 references.
- OSTI ID:
- 5290852
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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