Knowledge elicitation and decision-modelling for command agents

Understanding and designing for the human operator's role in military command and control (C2) environments goes beyond any one discipline; therefore, Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA) attempts to integrate the contributions of psychology, systems engineering, sociology, and other cognitive sciences while conceptually distinguishing their separate contributions. We have tried to address the issues of modelling decision-making in the real world. We have examined how knowledge-based behaviour can be converted into rules to guide agent action in dealing with both constraints of terrain and the enemy on the agent's goals. We have modelled the company commander's military decision-making process for the purposes of producing command agents (CA) for wargames simulations. Our focus in this work is to implement an agent framework which is goal oriented rather than task driven; it is therefore, anticipated that the CA developed from the CWA will be better able to handle novel situations