IMPROVED DECISION-MAKING THROUGH SIMULATION-BASED PLANNING

Real-time military planning and decision:making involve several differ ent modeling techniques, including rule-based, operator-based and dyna mic-model based approaches. While rule-based approaches are generally fast and are more appropriate for simple scenarios, simulation methods and dynamic models, indigenous to the simulation literature, are nece ssary to plan within environments involving large-scale uncertainty, m ultiple interacting elements and complex dynamics. Planning techniques must inter-operate to yield the best decisions, and we have. found th at simulation-based planning serves as an architecture for detailed mo del levels for both real-time and off-line decision making. We introdu ce simulation-based planning as a methodology for addressing the compl exity involved in Air Force missions while employing an example of air interdiction.