Models constitute an important component in decision support functions of C4I systems. They improve the military commander’s abilities to create situation awareness, analyse threats and make proper decisions. Computerized models can be exploited for the purpose of simulation, which enables us to cover a much wider range of options and go deeper in impact assessments. In this paper we describe d...

There are two major transformations currently occurring that significantly impact acquisition and management of military systems. Network Enabled Capability (NEC) demands careful consideration of interoperability for delivered systems; new systems must be introduced such that they are interoperable with current systems and legacy systems must be managed (upgraded, modified etc.) such that inter...

The paper analyzes and gives a new perspective on how Geospatial Technology can support Battle Command, and more specifically the integration of GIS technology with services architecture concepts. After some general background on desirability and feasibility, the paper will demonstrate how GIS might be used in a services-enabled battlefield. Finally some examples of systems that integrate these...

Despite the significant body of results in real-time scheduling, many real world problems are not easily supported. While algorithms such as Earliest Deadline First, Rate Monotonic, and the Spring scheduling algorithm can support sophisticated task set characteristics (such as deadlines, precedence constraints, shared resources, jitter, etc.), they are all "open loop" scheduling algorithms. Ope...

GNSS(Global Navigation Satellite System) is now being widely used in both civilian and military applications where accurate positioning and timing information are required and it is considered as a representative convergence technique in IT-Military application techniques. However, GNSS has low sensitivity level of GNSS receivers and is vulnerable to jamming signal, since the signals come from ...

Lower hounds are derived for the performance of any pattern recognition algorithm, which, using training data, selects a discrimination rule from a certain class of rules . The hounds involve the VapnikChervonenkis dimension of the class, and L, the minimal error probability within the class . We provide lower bounds when L= 0 (the usual assumption in Valiant's theory of learning) and L > 0 . L...

This paper intends to study the problem of standardizing the way small Unmanned Vehicles (UxV) are commanded and the way they report results. A particular focus is placed on multi-robot operations, where a team of unmanned air, ground and sea vehicles collaborate as a coordinated, seamlessly-integrated team. A strong effort shall be devoted to the integration of them as a heterogeneous fleet. T...

Presented are issues in designing smart, believable software agents capable of playing strategy games, with particular emphasis on the design of an agent capable of playing Cyberwar XXI, a complex war game. The architecture of a personality-rich, advise-taking game playing agent that learns to play is described. The suite of computational-intelligence tools used by the advisers include evolutio...

The use of ontologies can facilitate many processes in C4I systems. They can be used to provide unambiguous description of data sent among systems as well as automate realization of services in dynamic NEC environment. The use of ontologies has been also proposed in the area of mobile computing, where the ability to react to dynamic changes of the environment with minimal human intervention is ...