Design of an Online Decision-Making Support System for Joint Training Simulation

This paper describes the design of an online decision-making support system for a distributed operational training environment. The goal of this research is to allow the user to interactively actuate an analytical simulation system to perform online decision assessment while he is playing in the operational training simulation. The interoperability between these two heterogeneous simulation systems is an important issue for this research. This paper presents an approach using High Level Architecture (HLA) standards to achieve this interoperation. This paper explores the rationale of interoperating an event-driven analytical system and a time-stepped operational training system. From this investigation, this paper identifies the interoperation interval, called the assessment era, between these two heterogeneous systems that can execute asynchronously while interacting cooperatively. Furthermore, the process of computing such an assessment era is fully discussed with a demonstration scenario. Our experimental exercise shows that the presented method is a more feasible and efficient way to improve the training effect than a traditional joint training environment.