ForMAT--PRODIGY/Analogy TIE

BBN
Alice Mulvehill, Steve Christey

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
Manuela Veloso, Michael Cox


This page presents the results of a technology integration experiment (TIE) under the DARPA/Rome-Lab Planning Initiative between Carnegie Mellon's PRODIGY/Analogy planning system and BBN's ForMAT force management and analysis tool. In this research we have demonstrated the integration of a generative and case-based planning system (PRODIGY/Analogy) with a system to support the user with storage, retrieval, and building of plans (ForMAT). In the demonstration described below, a ForMAT user builds a new deployment plan (or TPFDD) in response to a given commander's mission statement. As the plan is developed, CMU's PRODIGY/Analogy system provides plan modification suggestions to the ForMAT user over the internet and in real-time.

Publications

Goals

System Architecture Diagram

TIE Description

Technology Demonstration

TIE Interface

Knowledge Structures

TIE 97-2:JADE

Future Directions

Summary

In conclusion the BBN/CMU TIE demonstrates that a mixed-initiative integration of automated and human planning is feasible. The emphasis is to allow humans full control over significant decisions in the deployment plan design, but to enhance the human cognitive capacity through the guided reuse of past plans and the timely insertions of automated suggestions and alternatives.


Correspondence: mcox+@cs.cmu.edu

Last Edited: August 13, 1998