Model-base structures to support adaptive planning in command/control systems

The basic rationale for an organization to constitute itself as a command/control system is to increase its potential for coping with particularly perilous, volatile and ill-constrained competitive environments. One characteristic common to such environments is the likelihood of confrontation by unanticipated or unplanned for situations. The emergence of such a situation might require adaptive planning, yet as things now stand, there is virtually nothing in the way of a consensus on the sorts of technical facilities that might help support adaptive planning. Prospects are explored for the development of two classes of model-base structures-categorical and template-driven-both of which are intended to allow command/control systems to significantly accelerate the performance of certain key planning-related activities