Introduction

ACP3 - the Air Campaign Planning Process Panel - provides an overview of the status of the workflow during the development of one or more Courses Of Action (COAs). It shows the status of a number of tools being used to develop and evaluate the alternative COAs.

The Overall workflow can be shown in an aggregate way, and the individual workflow on each COA is summarized in the column for the COA. Drill down to the next level of detail of the workflow status is possible from suitable (expandable) nodes in the grapical display or from the Workflow Status row of the COA matrix.

Various types of status display are maintained:

  1. a graphical display which shows the overall aggregate workflow, and will in future allow for drill down to levels of detail.
  2. a tabular COA matrix showing the workflow status overall and for the development of each individual COA.
  3. Future aditions will include agent tasks lists and other types of status display. As well as allowing the status of running processes and inter-agent interactions to be monitored and displayed, the design provides a basis for acting as a Process Control Panel in future. Authority management methods can be incorporated to manage human and automated agents who may act in a mixed initiative fashion within the framework, while operating on a number of different COAs which are under development.

    The concepts for ACP3 are derived from the O-P3 (Open Planning Process Panel) as used to interface to the ARPI O-Plan Project's Web Server at http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~oplan.

    Information Screen

    The main ACP3 display is always in the a main window. Information and help screens are sent to a second "ACP3 Information" window, which after it appears can be adjusted to a suitable size and left to one side of the main display.