High Power, High Power Density Packaging Technique

We propose to develop, build, and validate a hybrid decision support toolkit that utilizes a combination of common sense reasoning, domain knowledge based reasoning, and soft computing techniques to support intelligent decision making. The main product ofthis project will be the Hybrid Decision Wizard (HDWizard), an agent-based decision support system that facilitates the automated generation of information from disparate and distributed data to support user defined decision support goals. HDWizard'sintelligent mechanisms include common sense reasoning, rule-based expert systems, data mining, and data fusion. The Phase I project developed and demonstrated a prototype HDWizard software system. The Phase II project will refine and scale-up thesoftware and demonstrate its benefits on military and commercial applications. The most significant benefit of HDWizard is that it will provide access to sophisticated technology to a wide audience of potential users so that the the power of thesetechnologies will be rapidly exploited for practical applications. Key innovations include: (i) innovative hybridization approach to combine machine learning methods with common sense reasoning techniques, (ii) extendible and reconfigurable agent-basedarchitecture for intelligent decision support, and (iii) holistic solution approach that provides comprehensive support for the decision support life cycle.