The Advanced Battlefield Architecture for Tactical Information Selection (ABATIS)

Author

Keane, J. Sean ; Rozenblit, Jerzy W. ; Barnes, Michael

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Arizona Univ., Tucson, AZ, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

24-28 Mar 1997

Firstpage

228

Lastpage

237

Abstract

Modern warfare requires the understanding and management of increasingly complex assemblages of resources. The Advanced Battlefield Architecture for Tactical Information Selection (ABATIS) is introduced. It provides a framework for testing various display strategies. Its design, which uses object-oriented and hierarchical design methodologies, is flexible and extensible. It assures that a working program can be rapidly developed for comparing alternate display strategies. The report defines an overall architecture for battlefield visualization and then focuses on a detailed design of its display layer, called the process centered display (PCD). The design is specified using the object modeling technique (OMT) notation. The complete class diagrams for the PCD are presented and an illustrative example is given

Keywords

computer displays; data visualisation; military computing; object-oriented methods; object-oriented programming; software engineering; Advanced Battlefield Architecture for Tactical Information Selection; battlefield visualization; class diagrams; display layer; display strategy testing; hierarchical design methodology; object modeling technique; object-oriented design methodology; process centered display; warfare; Assembly; Computer architecture; Computer displays; Design methodology; Engineering management; Object oriented modeling; Resource management; Storms; Testing; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, 1997. Proceedings., International Conference and Workshop on

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7889-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECBS.1997.581867

Filename

581867