A key task of a commander is that of Battlefield Visualization – understanding the situation in order to make decisions to achieve operational goals. Central to this process is managing the information needed to make those decisions. As the battlefield becomes more complex, and the stresses on commanders more apparent, the need for automated tools to reduce the burden only increases. In this pa...

This paper introduces Global Fleet Station Mission Planner (GFSMP), an optimization tool to aid in mission planning and the scheduling of humanitarian assistance missions for the US Navy. GFSMP helps fleet staffs to examine how one naval ship, which was deployed for an extended period (e.g., six months), with embarked teams can best provide humanitarian assistance. We illustrate the application...

History.?In October 1910, the patient, Sepoy T. K., 27th Punjabis, showed me some pigmented spots on iiis face, hands and left leg. They first appeared in March, 1U0S, when the patient was living in Jhandola. He believed that quinine, which he was taking prophylactically at that time, caused their appearance. No fresh spots have appeared since then, but some of the original areas have increased...

A battle space contains information that is dynamic, unstructured, uncertain, and temporal. The commander must use this information to plan, analyze, and decide on the “best” strategy to defeat the enemy. Such information must be context-specific and content-sensitive to changes in the battle space. Typically, the commander must integrate information from various sources (terrain, weather, reso...

Global threats of terrorism, drug-smuggling, and other crimes have led to a significant increase in the need to deploy limited security resources to maximize their effectiveness. Game theory provides a sound mathematical approach for such effective deployment of limited security resources. A typical resulting approach is to randomize security schedules to avoid predictability, taking into accou...

Personality is a significant influence on human behavior. In the context of military decision-making, different military commanders may behave differently when faced with the similar circumstances, depending on their personalities. Moreover, personality may cause the same commander to react differently to similar situations encountered at different times. The effect of personality on decision-m...

Robots operating in human spaces must be able to engage natural language interaction, both understanding and executing instructions, using conversation resolve ambiguity correct mistakes. To study this, we introduce TEACh, a dataset of over 3,000 human-human, interactive dialogues complete household tasks simulation. A Commander with access oracle information about task communicates Follower. T...