Evertsz Rick, Thangarajah John. Practical Modelling of Dynamic Decision Making

Springer, 2019. — 110 p. — ISBN: 3319951947.This book presents TDF (Tactics Development Framework), a practical methodology for eliciting and engineering models of expert decision-making in dynamic domains. The authors apply the BDI (Beliefs, Desires, Intentions) paradigm to the elicitation and modeling of dynamic decision making expertise, including team behaviour, and map it to a diagrammatic representation that is intuitive to domain experts.This book is concerned with how to model the dynamic decision-making capabilities of individuals as well as teams, with a view to engineering competent, autonomous decision-making systems for applications such as UASs (Unmanned Aerial Systems) as well as simulations that implement virtual human characters. In the autonomous UAS case, the UAS should be engineered to have decision-making capabilities comparable to those of human pilots so that it can successfully achieve goals such as dealing with bad weather, avoiding hostile threats, and working collaboratively with human team members. In the simulation case, we want the virtual human characters to behave realistically for applications such as disaster management training, and wargaming. These applications all pertain to dynamic environments.