Battalion Command

Regimental doctoring in a battalion of the King's African Rifles.

THE following account is based on eighteen months' experience as R.M.O. of the 6th Battalion K.A.R. stationed at Dar es Salaam, Tang'anyika, East Africa. Dar es Salaam, the coastal capital of Tanganyika, is situated almost directly opposite Zanzibar Island. Its Arabic name means the "Haven of Peace" and despite the hustle and bustle of the modern world that centres round the new deep water bert...

Solving Battalion Rescheduling Problem Using Multi-objective Genetic Algorithms

In this paper, we consider the problem of rescheduling human resources in a battalion where new activities are assigned to the battalion by higher headquarters, requiring modification of an existing original schedule. The problem is modeled as a multi-criteria optimization problem with three objectives: (i) maximizing the number of tasks that are performed, (ii) minimizing the number of high-pr...

Command Dialogues

We propose a formal representation of imperatives in computational systems, and a multi-agent dialogue protocol to argue over these. Our representation treats a command as a presumptive argument for an action to be executed by a designated agent, together with a set of associated critical questions whose answers may defeat the presumption. The critical questions enable the identification of att...

Command Revisited

This pattern revisits the Command [GoF] and Command Processor [POSA1] patterns. The reasons for this revisiting is that we think that the Command and Command Processor patterns do not really capture the essence of what the Command pattern is. We think that Command is basically a way to emulate the concept of closures in object-oriented languages that don't natively have this feature. The Comman...

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