Automated intent assessment simulation environment

There are different ways of assessing the intent of a target. However, the most effective way is one that can offer the most accurate estimates compared to human-defined benchmarks. To allow various intent assessment technologies to be evaluated against the benchmarks, a reconfigurable simulation environment has been designed using a sound software engineering process which is the Rational Unified Process and the Unified Modelling Language. In order to cope with future tests with different technologies, the software architecture was structured in such a way that the simulation environment talks to different intent assessment technologies via an interface, hence forming a plug-and-play simulation environment.