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
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