elsaesser%mwcamis@MITRE.ARPA (03/16/87)
Issues Concerning AI Applications To Battle Management University of Washington Thursday, July 16, 1987 Sponsored by AAAI Success in applying AI technologies to battle management (e.g., production and blackboard systems for sensor fusion, constraint propagation for non-temporal planning tasks) has generated growing interest in the defense community in developing intelligent battle management aids, workstations, and systems. Along with this growing interest, there has been an order of magnitude increase in funding for battle management AI projects (e.g., Army-DARPA's Air-Land Battle Management, SAC-JSTPS-RADC-DARPA's Survivable Adaptive Planning Experiment). Past successes belie the lag of the AI community in solving technical issues associated with these projects. These issues include those associated with cooperating knowledge-based systems, distributed problem solving, uncertainty management, non-monotonic reasoning, planning, real-time performance requirements (i.e., the need for parallel or other advanced architectures), and the ability of users to maintain understanding and control of the automation. The purpose of this workshop is to gather together researchers who are attempting to find solutions to these and related issues and to discuss the current state of these arts. We believe that not enough has been done in these key areas areas, and that one result of the workshop might be some road map of how the community ought to proceed. The issues are so numerous and the area is large enough that we feel the initial workshop will only allow us to delineate how much has been done and what needs to be done in key areas. Thus, the goal is both to articulate where the major gaps are and which ones have a reasonable chance of solution in some believable time-frame. Interested persons should submit an extended abstract of not more than six pages to either person listed below (no on-line submissions please) on an AI subject of relevance to the above workshop objectives not later than 1 May 1987. Authors will be notified of acceptances by 1 June 1987, along with information relative to the workshop administration. R. Peter Bonasso Chris Elsaesser (703) 883 6908 (703) 883 6563 bonasso@mitre elsaesser%mwcamis@MITRE MITRE Washington AI Center Mail Stop W410 7525 Colshire Drive McLean, VA 22102