Abstract:

Military operation plans provide commanders with advanced aid for decision making; this requires full understanding of the involved processes， their information requirements， and depends on the development of formal domain models (ontologies) upon which reasoning processes can be based. This paper is a survey that presents planning and courses of action models reported in the literature. For each model, the major elements are identified, and the relevant aspects of ontology development， such as the elements of plan concept and knowledge representation techniques, are given. All works above offer enough information about the different models to construct an ontology for courses of actions.