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Paulo C. da Costa


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An Ontology for Hypothesis Management in the Maritime Domain JUN 2011 47 pages
Authors:  Richard Haberlin; Paulo C. da Costa; KATHRYN B. LASKEY; GEORGE MASON UNIV FAIRFAX VA DEPT OF SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH
The full text of this report is available for sale.In the operational environment, situational awareness (SA) supports tactical decision making through fusion of information about intelligence, geography, environment, and the geopolitical situation. Advanced decision support systems will provide the decision maker with a number of hypotheses from which the evolving situation may be inferred, limited only by the computational capacity of available computer hardware. Hypothesis Management is needed to control of exponential growth in fusion hypotheses created from incoming ...


Representing COA with Probabilistic Ontologies JUN 2011 48 pages
Authors:  Henrique C. Marques; Jose M. de Oliveira; Paulo C. da Costa; AERONAUTICAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SAO JOSE DOS CAMPOS (BRAZIL)
The full text of this report is available for sale.In modern day operations, planning has been an increasingly complex activity. This is especially true in civil-military scenarios, usually involving numerous and diverse actors as well as intertwining requirements that limit the solution space in nontrivial ways. Under these circumstances, decision support systems are an essential tool that can also become a liability if not properly devised or employed, and one of the critical parts of the planning process is ...


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