TY - GEN
T1 - A Command-by-Intent Architecture for Battlefield Information Acquisition Systems
AU - Lee, Jongdeog
AU - Hao, Yifan
AU - Abdelzaher, Tarek
AU - Marcus, Kelvin
AU - Hobbs, Reginald
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Research reported in this paper was sponsored in part by the Army Research Laboratory under Cooperative Agreements W911NF-09-2-0053 and W911NF-17-2-0196, in part by DARPA under award W911NF-17-C-0099, and in part by NSF under grants CNS 16-18627 and CNS 13-20209. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the Army Research Laboratory, DARPA, NSF, or the U.S. Government. The U.S. Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for Government purposes notwithstanding any copyright notation here on.
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© 2018 ISIF
PY - 2018/9/5
Y1 - 2018/9/5
N2 - In military operations, Commander's Intent describes the desired end state and purpose of the operation, expressed in a concise and clear manner. Command by intent is a paradigm that empowers subordinate units to exercise measured initiative to meet mission goals and accept prudent risk within commander's intent. It improves agility of military operations by allowing exploitation of local opportunities without an explicit directive from the commander to do so. This paper discusses what the paradigm entails in terms of architectural decisions for data fusion systems tasked with real-time information collection to satisfy operational mission goals. In our system, information needs of decisions are expressed at a high level, and shared among relevant nodes. The selected nodes, then, jointly operate to meet mission information needs by forwarding and caching relevant data without explicit directives regarding the objects to fetch and sources to contact. A preliminary evaluation of the system is presented using a target tracking application, set in the context of a NATO-based mission scenario, called Anglova. Evaluation results show that delegating some decision authority to the data fusion system (in terms of objects to fetch and sources to contact) allows it to save more network resources, while also increasing mission success rate. The system is therefore particularly well-suited to operation in partially denied or contested environments, where resource bottlenecks caused by adversarial activity impair one's ability to collect real-time information for mission-critical decision making.
AB - In military operations, Commander's Intent describes the desired end state and purpose of the operation, expressed in a concise and clear manner. Command by intent is a paradigm that empowers subordinate units to exercise measured initiative to meet mission goals and accept prudent risk within commander's intent. It improves agility of military operations by allowing exploitation of local opportunities without an explicit directive from the commander to do so. This paper discusses what the paradigm entails in terms of architectural decisions for data fusion systems tasked with real-time information collection to satisfy operational mission goals. In our system, information needs of decisions are expressed at a high level, and shared among relevant nodes. The selected nodes, then, jointly operate to meet mission information needs by forwarding and caching relevant data without explicit directives regarding the objects to fetch and sources to contact. A preliminary evaluation of the system is presented using a target tracking application, set in the context of a NATO-based mission scenario, called Anglova. Evaluation results show that delegating some decision authority to the data fusion system (in terms of objects to fetch and sources to contact) allows it to save more network resources, while also increasing mission success rate. The system is therefore particularly well-suited to operation in partially denied or contested environments, where resource bottlenecks caused by adversarial activity impair one's ability to collect real-time information for mission-critical decision making.
KW - Command-by-intent
KW - Decision-centric
KW - IoBT
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U2 - 10.23919/ICIF.2018.8455376
DO - 10.23919/ICIF.2018.8455376
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85054075240
SN - 9780996452762
T3 - 2018 21st International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2018
SP - 2298
EP - 2305
BT - 2018 21st International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 21st International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2018
Y2 - 10 July 2018 through 13 July 2018
ER -