Intelligent Systems for Security Informatics

Chapter 5

High-Level Architecture and Design of a Decision Engine for Marine Safety and Security¹

Piper Jackson^∗, Uwe Glässer^∗, Hamed Yaghoubi Shahir^∗ and Hans Wehn^†, ^∗Software Technology Lab, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, ^†Research & Development, MDA Corporation, Richmond, British Columbia, Canada

Chapter Outline

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Background

5.2.1 The OODA Loop

5.2.2 Automated Planning

5.2.3 Fundamental Planning Elements

5.2.4 Hierarchical Task Networks

5.2.5 Other Related Research

5.3 Conceptual Design

5.3.1 Requirements

5.3.2 System Architecture and Design

Goal management

Plan management

Decision management

Evaluation

Communication mechanism

5.3.3 Hybrid HTN Framework

5.3.4 Plan ...