Abstract

"Evaluating Air Campaign Plan Quality in Operational Settings" Artificial Intelligence methods can rapidly generate plans for complex situations. However, these plans may be rejected by air campaign planning (ACP) experts, who judge dimensions such as robustness using operational rather than computational criteria. The goal of this research program is to capture the tactical and strategic concerns of air campaign planners and to incorporate these into planning technology to filter out the unacceptable options and highlight preferred plans. The researchers are in the process of employing a complete Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA) to identify fully the process of plan evaluation and factors underlying judgments of plan robustness. The CTA will form the foundation of the ACP Plan Critic. The Plan Critic will evaluate plans for plan quality and will highlight potential problem areas, and vulnerable assumptions. This paper summarizes the progress of this research effort.


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