Caesar Ii: a System for the Design and Evaluation of Command and Control Organizations

CAESAR II ( Computer Aided Evaluation of System AR chitectures) is a suite of software tools that puts together the results of more than 10 years of research in the design, modeling and evaluation of decision making organizations. Implemented in C, ML, and C++ on a Macintosh, it realizes interfaces between COTS applications (Design/CPNTM, Design/IDEFTM, Microsoft ExcelTM, MATLABTM), COTS development tools (Visual ArchitectTM, AppleScriptTM) and "inhouse" applications and algorithms (Lattice Algorithm, Genetic Algorithm, Cube Tool, RULER). There are four major stages in CAESAR II: 1) Requirements Generation, 2) Decision Making Organization (DMO) Architecture Generation, 3) Selection and Analysis of DMO Architecture 4) Performance Evaluation Stage 1, Requirements Generation, is a heuristics process. From the definition of the mission to be performed by the organization and the operational concept that defines how the organization will perform the mission, the designer has to determine (1) the functionality (that is the decision process, the operations or methods to be used by the decision makers to perform this decision process, and the interactions among decision makers), (2) the structural constraints, (3) the performance requirements and, (4) the scenarios consistent with the operational concept that will be used in stage 4 for the derivation of performance measures.