Parsimonious Analogical Reasoning for Smart Decision Support in Network-enabled Environments: Managing Situational Awareness
Date Issued
2006
Abstract
How information is managed and exploited to support commanders’ intuitive decision making
during the execution of a plan is a key consideration in the development of a true networked
enabled capability (NEC). While the benefits of NEC are laudable i.e. better networks, better
information sharing and situational awareness, better decisions, better actions and better effects,
commanders and their staff are nevertheless faced with an overwhelming amount of data; in
practice, this can often lead to inconsistent perspectives and tempo stagnation impeding decision
and operational effectiveness. Therefore reducing the information volume requirement and
servicing commanders’ critical information requirements (CCIRs) through parsimonious
information fusion is fundamental to maintaining situational awareness (SA) in the battlespace and
achieving decision effectiveness. This paper outlines and demonstrates an analogical reasoning
approach for smart decision support in NEC which employs soft Case Based Reasoning (CBR)
techniques incorporating Critical Success Factors (CSFs). The effectiveness of this approach is
illustrated using a war-gaming case study implemented on a Computer Generated Forces (CGF)
test-bed.
during the execution of a plan is a key consideration in the development of a true networked
enabled capability (NEC). While the benefits of NEC are laudable i.e. better networks, better
information sharing and situational awareness, better decisions, better actions and better effects,
commanders and their staff are nevertheless faced with an overwhelming amount of data; in
practice, this can often lead to inconsistent perspectives and tempo stagnation impeding decision
and operational effectiveness. Therefore reducing the information volume requirement and
servicing commanders’ critical information requirements (CCIRs) through parsimonious
information fusion is fundamental to maintaining situational awareness (SA) in the battlespace and
achieving decision effectiveness. This paper outlines and demonstrates an analogical reasoning
approach for smart decision support in NEC which employs soft Case Based Reasoning (CBR)
techniques incorporating Critical Success Factors (CSFs). The effectiveness of this approach is
illustrated using a war-gaming case study implemented on a Computer Generated Forces (CGF)
test-bed.
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