Book Description

The purpose of this report is to identify and recommend, for increased support, research topics in information processing most likely to yield valuable results. Conclusions are based on a survey of information processing methods rele vant to military command and control and, specifically, the subject of: heuristic program ming, adaptive networks (e.g., perceptrons), artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, and information storage and retrieval. The survey consists of a comprehensive bibliography re lying heavily upon other published collections, a set of original reviews of special topics such as machine programming, and a discussion ending in recommendations for support of research in six specific subject areas. (Author).