Only nodes that correspond to one of the legal operations in the SIPE knowledge base can be used. It incorporates action planning techniques, production rule and frame based formalisms, and natural language processing. Knobs does consistency checking, and provides explantion, option enumeration, and rapid replanning. Expert Systems for Battle Management Battle is a decision aid designed to assist fire support planning, the application of resources against enemy targets in support of ground force objectives. Fire support planning is a continuous process that results in frequent updates.
Battle has two seperate analytic phases.
The results are stored in a central data base of computational results. In phase II, generate composite fire support plans, battle attempts to find an optimum distribution of resources against targets by treating it as a heuristic tree search problem with a pruning algorithm. This leads quickly to a first-pass reasonable solution, and then continues to search for progressively better solutions. There are relatively few systems to support senior command level decision processes. It must be able to communicate with the decision maker, and transcribe and represent user generated options.