Generating Explainable Military Courses of Action
conference paper
Course Of Action (COA) generation is an important
step in the military decision making process. In land operations it
is a manual, creative process throughout which a commander and
his staff take many factors into account, such as mission, terrain
and weather, doctrine, threat capabilities and own capabilities.
Disadvantages of this manual process are the inability of taking
into account too many factors, the number of staff involved and
the difficulty in evaluating COAs. New (AI-based) technologies
can overcome these disadvantages and when implemented could
serve as Tactical Decision Aids. This paper presents the results of
research in which a step towards an automated tactical decision
support tool for land operations was made. For a single SEIZE
task at company level, based on doctrinal templates, COAs
are selected and optimized using Genetic Algorithms based on
simulated effects. An initial step in elucidating the generated
COAs is undertaken by linking individual outcomes of simulation
runs during the (GA) optimization process to tactical features of
the terrain.
step in the military decision making process. In land operations it
is a manual, creative process throughout which a commander and
his staff take many factors into account, such as mission, terrain
and weather, doctrine, threat capabilities and own capabilities.
Disadvantages of this manual process are the inability of taking
into account too many factors, the number of staff involved and
the difficulty in evaluating COAs. New (AI-based) technologies
can overcome these disadvantages and when implemented could
serve as Tactical Decision Aids. This paper presents the results of
research in which a step towards an automated tactical decision
support tool for land operations was made. For a single SEIZE
task at company level, based on doctrinal templates, COAs
are selected and optimized using Genetic Algorithms based on
simulated effects. An initial step in elucidating the generated
COAs is undertaken by linking individual outcomes of simulation
runs during the (GA) optimization process to tactical features of
the terrain.
TNO Identifier
996333
Publisher
IEEE
Source title
2024 International Conference on Military Communication and Information Systems (ICMCIS), IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA
Pages
1-10
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