"ACS.1: An Experimental Automated Command Support System" (from IEEE transactions on systems, man, and cybernetics)

Introduction

Although even in First Gen AI, many computational text generators were created with real-world applications in mind (see the “Baseball” statistics program or ELIZA, the therapist-machine), some programs had second lives when they were repurposed for use in different industries. Funding for Meehan’s story-generating TALE-SPIN program had been provided by the Department of Defense, and the Navy eventually refitted TALE-SPIN to simulate the command environment of a naval air squadron in its Automated Command Support System (1978). The ACS contained schemas like AIR-CRAFT, PILOT, and FLIGHT, a planner with solution-oriented problem sets like PILOT-DEBRIEF, and a scheduler to allocate limited resources (pilots, maintenance crew). By practicing with simulated scenarios (e.g Pilot C becomes sick; Pilot B has aircraft malfunction over a no-fly zone), squadron commanders could repeatedly game-out the possible outcomes of complex planning operations. In the article displayed here, you can see the process-model for flying a mission.

Additional Information

Label

"ACS.1: An Experimental Automated Command Support System" (from IEEE transactions on systems, man, and cybernetics)

Author

M.C. Pease

Original Publication Date

1978

New Publication Date

1978

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Location

Butler Stacks

Case

8