The Distributed Intelligent Defense System

Abstract

The authors describe the Distributed Intelligent Defense System (DIDS), a prototype research testbed targeted to a helicopter defense system developed under the IBM Systems Integration Division (SID) High Performance Inference Processing (HPIP) Independent Research and Development (IR&D) project. A brief overview of artificial intelligence (AI) in IBM's SID leading up to the development of the DIDS system is given, followed by a description of the development of the system itself. Performance measurement methodologies and results are then discussed. Several conclusions based on these results are given, along with plans for future system enhancements.<>