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Integrating Information from Multiple Sources: Expert Decision Making Procedures

Authors: Susan S. Kirschenbaum; NAVAL UNDERSEA WARFARE CENTER NEWPORT DIV RI
Abstract:
Battlespace Management systems are often developed by decomposing the problem into separate functions. For example, the battle scene is decomposed into intelligence reports, sensor displays for each sensor, contact tracks for each sensor contact, environmental (weather, oceanography) conditions and predictions, sensor effectiveness predictions, geophysical/ physical oceanographic pictures, etc. Once the problem has been decomposed and analyzed, the decision maker must put it back together in a mental information fusion process, integrating information. The tools to help the expert decision maker re-fuse the problem are far fewer and more difficult to develop than the tools to decompose. The research reported here takes an alternative approach by providing information displays that cluster and integrate information according to the expert decision maker's knowledge schema and procedural structure. A complex, time-dependant (but non-military) test domain with multiple conflicting goals was selected. Functional partitioning required greater effort while procedurally based information-clustering resulted in more efficient (timely and accurate) decision making.

Limitations: APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
Pages: 9
Report Date: 01 NOV 2000
Report Number: P696010
Keywords relating to this report:
BATTLE MANAGEMENTZ
BATTLE MANAGEMENTZDECISION MAKING
DATA FUSION
DECISION MAKING
DETECTORS
DISPLAY SYSTEMS
GEOPHYSICS
INFORMATION PROCESSING
INTEGRATED SYSTEMS
INTELLIGENCE
MENTAL ABILITY
OCEANOGRAPHY
OPERATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS
PREDICTIONS
REPORTS
SYMPOSIA
TACTICAL DATA SYSTEMS
TEST AND EVALUATION
WEATHER
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