Anticipatory planning support system

Author

Surdu, John R. ; Hill, John M D ; Pooch, Udo W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., US Mil. Acad., West Point, NY, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

950

Abstract

A novel approach to military planning and execution is proposed. This approach seeks to merge planning and execution, and replaces reaction to events with anticipation of events. The paper presents a methodology for building an automated system to support anticipatory planning. A plan description is developed to manage the many tree-like branches that occur in planning and execution of an operation. A planning executive can use the differences between the plan and the actual operation to control the activities of planners and execution monitors in anticipating future branches to the plan. At the heart of the system are inference mechanisms for determining branches in the plan and simulations for predicting future states. This methodology enables the development of a prototype Anticipatory Planning Support System for evaluation of this new approach to military planning and execution. This paper concentrates on the activities of the execution monitors and their use of simulation to support those activities

Keywords

digital simulation; inference mechanisms; military computing; planning (artificial intelligence); anticipation of events; anticipatory planning support system; automated system; execution monitors; future state prediction; inference mechanisms; military planning; plan description; planning executive; reaction to events; simulation; tree-like branches; Automatic control; Decision making; Heart; Inference mechanisms; Military computing; Predictive models; Process planning; Proposals; Prototypes; Uncertainty;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Simulation Conference, 2000. Proceedings. Winter

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6579-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WSC.2000.899897

Filename

899897