An Application of Rule-Directed Interactive Transaction Agent (RITA) for the Automated Technical Control of the Defense Communications System (DCS)

摘要

Historically, military technical control facilities (TCF) have performed their supervisory and control functions over communications-electronics systems by manual processes, using verbal and/or teletype conversations for coordinating with distant stations. These methods will soon be changed with the application of computers to automate many of the manual tasks and assist the technical controllers in others. One of these manual tasks, that of record-keeping and report generation, promises to yield significant manpower savings but has been deferred from implementation due to high cost and technical complexity. Accordingly, this thesis proposed a representative software program for an automatic report generator using the Rule-directed Interactive Transaction Agent (RITA). It facilitates the automatic entry of data into reporting formats, automatic generation of data into files/reports, a capability to alter report formats and file building rules, and algorithms for automated statistical analysis of data files.