Abstract

This document describes and discusses INSPECT 1 (INtelligent System for air campaign Plans Evaluation based on expeCT). INSPECT is a mixed-initiative planning support tool that critiques/evaluates ACPlans (Air Campaign Plans) by checking their consistency with respect to several dimensions. The description in this document should not be taken as a full speci cation or documentation of INSPECT, but as an overview of what it does. INSPECT was built using the EXPECT knowledge acquisition framework and system. EXPECT provides tools to construct knowledge-base applications. It was designed to allow non-programmers to modify an application, while freeing them from the need to understand implementation details.
INSPECT was presented in the Fourth Integrated Feasibility Demonstration (IFD-4) of ARPI. The system is part of a Technology Integration Experiment (TIE) between EXPECT and the Air Campaign Planning Tool (ACPT) to provide consistency checking for strategic plans developed (or modi ed) using ACPT. ACPT is a system that allows editing and browsing ACPlans. It contains several tools to help in the planning process, and it allows access to several other applications that support the planning process. INSPECT can be invoked from ACPT after a user has nished editing the air objectives and/or air tasks of an ACPlan. INSPECT's knowledge base contains knowledge about a library of commonly occurring planning problems. INSPECT examines a user's plan to see if any of the problems in the library can be found. If so, it noti es the user and explains the problem to him. Presently, this veri cation of consistency is done …

Date

September 13, 1996

Authors

Andre Valente, Yolanda Gil, William Swartout

Journal

ISI Technical memo, June