ISE 2002  PLENARY  SESSION  III

 

 

 

LINGUISTIC  GEOMETRY:

New  Technology  for  Defense  Systems

 

 

Dr. Boris Stilman

University of Colorado at Denver

&

STILMAN Advanced Strategies

USA

 

 

 

Abstract

Linguistic Geometry (LG) is a new type of game theory for solving abstract board games, which represent various natural and artificial conflicts including military combat, cyberwar, robotic manufacturing, software re-engineering, transportation, etc.  The purpose of LG is to provide strategies to guide the participants of a game to reach their goals.  Traditionally, finding such strategies required searches in giant game trees.  LG dramatically reduces the size of the search trees, thus making the problems previously considered unsolvable, computationally tractable.  Over the past 4 years, LG attracted so much attention in the USA at DARPA, U.S. Air Force, Rockwell, Boeing, and around the world that the number of LG-based projects has skyrocketed.  In 1999, recognizing the maturity and the power of this technology, a group of scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs founded a company, STILMAN Advanced Strategies (STILMAN), in order to develop government and commercial applications of LG.  STILMAN developed a number of software prototypes including JEC (JFACC Experiment Commander), an intelligent adviser on Air Force missions to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, LG-EBO for planning and control of effect based operations, LG-PROTECTOR for resource distribution, planning and real time re-planning of integrated cruise missile defense.  LG is widely considered as a technology leading to the revolution in military command, control, and decision aids.  In particular, on May 14, 2002, STILMAN presented some of LG-based software to the US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board as a component of a larger Boeing demonstration at Mesa, AZ.  Due to the success of this presentation, Boeing is scheduling a similar presentation to the US Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Jumper in July of 2002. 

 

Short Biography:

Dr. Boris Stilman received Ph.D. in Computer Science and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the National Research Institute for Electrical Engineering, Moscow, USSR, in 1984.  Since 1991, Dr. Stilman has been Professor at the University of Colorado at Denver (UCD) and, since 1999, he has been the Chairman & CEO at STILMAN Advanced Strategies (STILMAN).  Dr. Stilman is the originator of Linguistic Geometry (LG), a new type of game theory, which resulted from his research over the last 30 years.  For 16 years Dr. Stilman was involved in the advanced research project PIONEER led by a former World Chess Champion Professor Mikhail Botvinnik.  The goal of the project was to discover and mathematically formalize methodology utilized by the most advanced chess experts (including Botvinnik himself) in solving chess problems almost without search.  Professor Stilman made fundamental contributions in the areas of higher-dimensional multi-agent concurrent games, game constructors, and software development environments.  He has published several books and contributions to books, over 160 journal and conference papers.  His first scholarly book on LG was published in 2000.  Dr. Stilman has been a recipient of numerous research awards.  In the 70s and 80s, he received substantial grants from the former USSR Academy of Sciences, CDC Corp. (USA), Universities of Mannheim and Dortmund (Germany).  In the 90s, he received grants and contracts from AFOSR, DOE/Sandia National Labs, DARPA, Boeing, and Rockwell.  Dr. Stilman has led a number of national projects in the former Soviet Union (until 1990), government-funded projects at UCD in the USA, and all the government and commercial projects developed by STILMAN.