An Architecture for Real-Time Mixed Initiative Collaborative Planning

Computational Models for Mixed Initiative Interaction

Volume

Papers from the 1997 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

This paper describes an architecture for real time tactical planning in a naval combat system. Based around multiple users sharing a real time mixed initiative planning server, this system allows several specialists to collaboratively interact with the computer under the supervision of a task leader. Since the tactical domain requires real time response to high priority events, planning control passes between the specialists, the supervisor, and the automated planner as a function of changes in the environment. This architecture has been implemented in the DARPA Ship Systems Automation (SSA) Tactical Planner.