Threat evaluation is a critical function in naval battle management command and control. It involves taking into account a large number of variables and requires making complex inferences under time and uncertainty constraints. Collaborative threat evaluation within a multi-unit and geographically dispersed force can reduce the uncertainty factor by bringing to the process additional information sources and computational power and providing more capability and robustness. However, it also introduces many ...
Naval combat platforms will increasingly operate in littoral environments where they will be exposed to a variety of anti-ship threats. To defend against these threats, a warship will use different means, including hard-kill weapons and soft-kill measures. Efficient allocation and coordination of these combat resources is a complex decision-making problem in which a huge amount of imperfect data must be dealt with under the pressure of time. This defines the ...
There is a growing interest for the integration of critical thinking, defined as the capacity of thinking about one's own reasoning, into military practices. In this paper, we discuss the potential of critiquing systems (critics) - software programs that provide a critique of the user-generated solution - for training critical thinking skills. More specifically, we discuss the use of two types of critics, generic and experiential, which respectively use doctrine-related ...
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