Influence of Terrain on Modern Tactical Combat: Trust-based Recommender System

  • Punam Bedi University of Delhi, Delhi
  • A.K. Sinha Defence Terrain Research Laboratory, Delhi
  • Sumit Agarwal University of Delhi, Delhi
  • Ambrish Awasthi Defence Terrain Research Laboratory, Delhi
  • Gaurav Prasad Defence Terrain Research Laboratory, Delhi
  • Devinder Saini Defence Terrain Research Laboratory, Delhi
Keywords: Recommender systems, trust, clustering, intuitionistic fuzzy set, agent, tactical combat

Abstract

In Army Services, there are a number of valuable decisions that have to be taken for mission accomplishment. These decisions are very important and the choice of a weapon may be able to alter the outcome of a battle decisively. Among several such decisions one is to decide which weapons to deploy/assign over a given terrain. Recommender systems are intelligent applications to assist users in a decision-making process where they want to choose one item amongst a potentially overwhelming set of alternative products or services. This paper proposes the design of recommender system that automates the process of finding the appropriate type of weapon(s) that can be deployed over a terrain having certain characteristics. The user agent seeks recommendations, which are in the form of intuitionistic fuzzy set (IFS), from trustworthy peers and produces aggregated order of recommendations taking degree of trust on recommenders into consideration. Trust on recommender is also updated based on importance of recommendation given to the user. A prototype of the trust-based recommender system for modern tactical combat system has been designed and developed through which the user can get the recommendation to use a specific kind of weapon or a set of weapons that would be best-suited in a given type of terrain.

Defence Science Journal, 2010, 60(4), pp.405-411, DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/dsj.60.498

Author Biographies

Punam Bedi, University of Delhi, Delhi

Received her PhD in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi, in 1999 and her MTech Computer Science from IIT Delhi in 1986. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi. She has about 24 years of teaching and research experience and has published about 75 papers in National/ International Journals/Conferences. She is a member of AAAI, IEEE, ACM and life member of Computer Society of India.

Sumit Agarwal, University of Delhi, Delhi

 

 

Published
2010-07-09
How to Cite
Bedi, P., Sinha, A., Agarwal, S., Awasthi, A., Prasad, G., & Saini, D. (2010). Influence of Terrain on Modern Tactical Combat: Trust-based Recommender System. Defence Science Journal, 60(4), 405-411. https://doi.org/10.14429/dsj.60.498

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