ForMAT2--Prodigy/CBMIP--Parka:
The JADE Project
BBN
Alice Mulvehill, Clint Hyde
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
Manuela Veloso,
Michael Cox
THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND (College Park)
Jim Hendler,
Dave Rager
This page presents the results of a technology integration experiment (TIE)
under the DARPA/Rome-Lab Planning Initiative
between Carnegie Mellon's Prodigy/CBMIP
case-based mixed-initiative planner, BBN's ForMAT2
force management and analysis tool, and the University of Maryland's PARKA Parallel
Knowledge Representation system. The Joint Assistant for Deployment and
Execution (JADE) is an integrated mixed-initiative prototype whose goal is to
provide military planners with the ability to generate a skeleton deployment
plan within an extremely fast time period. That is, JADE can generate an 80%
logistics solution in less than an hour. ForMAT2 provides a drag and drop
interface to the human deployment planner, Parka provides the high performance
knowledge base to past deployment plans, and Prodigy/CBMIP provides
modifications suggestions to the human user to facilitate the reuse of past
plans in new situations. The JADE technology is demonstrated in a highly
complex and realistic Pacific Command crisis scenario.
Publications
Technology Demonstration
Summary
In summary this research demonstrates
- the capability of efficient case-based
retrieval and reuse of plan elements
- a tight integration of not only independently developed
technologies, but of the capabilities of both human and machine planners
- a
sophisticated graphical drag and drop interface (ForMAT2)
- quality modification advice by a mature
planning tool (Prodigy/CBMIP)
- and a secure foundation for further technology
development.
Correspondence:
mcox+@cs.cmu.edu
Last Edited: September 11, 1998
