Second International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS'95) A novel approach to asynchronous, decentralized decision-making in military command and control Phoenix, Arizona, USA April 25-April 27 ISBN: 0-8186-7087-8
Abstract: This paper proposes a novel asynchronous, decentralized decision-making algorithm for military command and control. Unlike centralized command and control, in the proposed approach, all entities-infantry, tanks, and aircrafts, of the system are granted significant autonomy, subject to strict guidelines and directives, and provided with the necessary computing power, intelligence gathering facilities, communications gear, and decision-making aids. The overall decision task is distributed among these entities. As a result, every entity's execution is asynchronous, concurrent and autonomous, leading to efficient and fast decision making. The ability to model is made possible by the fact that the transfer of discrete data, geographically-dispersed decision-making entities, asynchronously generated stimuli, and the presence of feedback in the data transfer process are the properties of asynchronous, distributed discrete-event simulation algorithm. This paper also presents an implementation of the proposed approach on a testbed of 40+SUN sparc workstations, configured as a loosely-coupled parallel processor and performance results for different scenarios.
Index Terms:
distributed decision making; command and control systems; military computing; discrete event simulation; distributed algorithms; parallel processing; decision support systems; asynchronous decentralized decision-making; military command and control; infantry; tanks; aircrafts; directives; intelligence gathering; decision-making aids; data transfer process; distributed discrete-event simulation algorithm; SUN sparc workstations; loosely-coupled parallel processor; performance results
Citation:
T. Lee, S. Ghosh, "A novel approach to asynchronous, decentralized decision-making in military command and control," isads, pp.0025, Second International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS'95), 1995 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||