Mixed-Initiative Planning in a Distributed Case-Based Reasoning System

摘要

The USAF Command and Control (C2) is undergoing a transformation to enable a full-spectrum, joint warfighting capability. To be able to meet the future challenge of employing forces anywhere in the world in support of national security objectives, the USAF requires a highly synchronized, distributed planning and replanning capability that is flexible and agile enough to adapt to any level of conflict. Complex planning systems require the expertise and knowledge of both humans and computers during the planning process. By allowing computers and humans to contribute their individual expertise to discrete areas of the planning process, a synergy is formed which cannot compete with fully automated systems or human-only planning processes. This paper describes an approach to providing mixed-initiative interaction in a distributed, case-based planning system that is under development through an in- house program at the USAF Research Laboratory Information Directorate. This approach to mixed-initiative planning identifies methods to achieve this important synergy by leveraging existing technologies such as distributed blackboards, case-based reasoning, formal plan representations, multi-agent systems, as well as semantic technologies.