A Model of Team Decision Making Using Situation Awareness

In order for agents to successfully make decisions about task allocations within a team, two elements are essential: (1) a good judgement of the situation and (2) once the situation is known have a good decision making process to derive and assign tasks that should be performed. Within research on agent systems, little work has been done on the combination of the two. In this paper, a human-based situation awareness model is combined with a decision making procedure (which incorporates task identification and task allocation). In order to show that the approach is able to produce good results, it has been evaluated in a case study within the domain of fighter pilots. More specifically, enemy fighter pilot decision making is modelled, for the purpose of using intelligent agents in the enemy role in virtual simulation training. Simulation runs using the model show promising results.