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Within Air Operations Division of DSTO intelligent agents are used to model the tactical decision making processes of pilots and fighter-controllers involved in air combat. One of the largest hurdles to be overcome by software engineers and analysts, when developing simulations of the air defence environment, is the acquisition of domain knowledge. Primarily the source of this knowledge is the pilots and other operational personnel, whose availability is limited and who have little experience with the design or development of simulation software. The adoption of agent oriented technologies has realized a number of significant benefits. High amongst these is the ability for operational air force personnel to become actively involved in the modification, design and development of these simulations. This involvement has dramatically reduced the time taken to prototype, test, and commission software and has resulted in simulations that have the confidence of the RAAF.
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Heinze, C., Smith, B., Cross, M. (1998). Thinking quickly: Agents for modeling air warfare. In: Antoniou, G., Slaney, J. (eds) Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence. AI 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1502. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0095040
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