Modeling Intelligent Decision-Making Command and Control Agents: An Application to Air Defense

The article is halfway between agent technology and the mathematical reasoning needed to model tactical decision-making tasks. These models are applied to the air defense domain for command and control (C2). The article also addresses the issues related to evaluating agents, which are designed and implemented using the agent-programming paradigm. The agents are deployed in a simulated environment for performing C2 tasks, such as electronic counter-countermeasures, threat assessment, and weapon allocation. The simulated defense system runs without any human intervention and represents a state-of-the-art model for C2 autonomy. The use of agents as autonomous decision-making entities is particularly useful in view of futuristic network-centric warfare.