SBIR-STTR Award

The decision aid support environment (DASE) project addresses the requirements and design issues surrounding the development of an ADA-based environment supporting the development and operations of decision aids. The project will analyze existing and envisaged decision aids and decision aid languages in order to derive requirements on the dames the suitability of ADA for decision aid support will be thoroughly investigated, and mechanisms for interfacing ADA with other decision aid languages will be examined. The Phase I effort will also determine the feasibility of interoperable decision aid databases and user interfaces that can be effectively utilized by decision aids written in different languages the DASE approach will integrate procedural languages with artificial intelligence languages using each language where it is best suited for development.

This proposal addresses the prototype development of a decision aid development support environment (dadse) that incorporates the usage of both the ada and lips programming languages. The prototype will provide a development environment for the decision-aid programmer and researcher to investigate the full requirements for a productionlevel dadse. The prototype dadse will provide the ability to use either a single language, ada, to develop simple decision-aid applications or provide the option to the developer to utilize both ada and lips for more sophisticated requirements. The phase ii work will also include investigations of the use of the prototype on selected decision-aid applications. This will help provide metrics for the measurment of the adequacy of the dadse as a viable product in the development of dod decision-aid applications.