PARALLEL ARCHITECTURE FOR REAL TIME KNOWLEDGE-BASED DECISION AIDS

TACTICAL DECISION AIDS, TDA, SYSTEMS ARE UTILIZED BY THE BATTLEFIELD COMMANDER IN A DYNAMIC, INFORMATION FILLED ENVIRONMENT. WITH THE CONTINUING INCREASE IN DATA AND INFORMATION AVAILABLE, AND WITH THE CONTINUING SHORTAGE OF EXPERT PERSONNEL, THE CRITICAL REQUIREMENTS OF FUTURE TDA SYSTEMS ARE FOR SPEED AND MORE AUTONOMOUS PROCESSING. THIS PROPOSAL PRESENTS A SOUND ENGINEERING APPROACH FOR DERIVING AND ASSESSING KNOWLEDGE BASED PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES FOR TACTICAL DECISION MAKING. OUR APPROACH, INVOLVING ANALYSIS OF THE DOMAIN APPLICATION, REQUIREMENTS DERIVATION, AND IDENTIFICATION OF SOFTWARE/HARDWARE SYSTEM COMPONENTS, HAS BEEN USED SUCCESSFULLY BY MRJ FOR NUMEROUS GOVERNMENT CUSTOMERS. MRJ IS UNIQUELY STAFFED WITH REQUIRED EXPERTS IN KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING, PARALLEL PROCESSING AND THE TACTICAL DOMAIN. ADDITIONALLY, WE ARE ABLE TO IDENTIFY, BASED ON OUR PAST AND CURRENT BUSINESS ACTIVITIES, AN INNOVATIVE CONCEPT FOR A POTENTIAL TDA SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE THAT COMBINES THE PROCESSING POWER OF COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE PARALLEL COMPUTERS WITH AN OPEN SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE TO PROVIDE ANALYSIS IN NEAR REAL TIME, HIGH USER CONFIDENCE, LITTLE USER EXPERTISE, AND EFFECTIVE USE OF STATIC AND DYNAMIC DATA FROM NUMEROUS SOURCES. THIS STRAWMAN TDA SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE CONCEPT IS PRESENTED HERIN TO EXEMPLIFY THOSE THAT WE PROPOSE TO ANALYZE DURING PHASE I.