"SEAS introduces more structure into the analytic environment that is in use today but not as much as belief networks. … The analytic method is broken down into a set of smaller analytic tasks with their interrelationships captured." p. 308-309
"In short, we are attempting to establish a division of labor where the analysts do the nuanced reasoning and the machine captures and presents that reasoning in ways that make it more accesible." p. 309
"This
hierarchy of questions
is called the
argument template (as opposed to the
argument, which answers the questions posed by a template." p. 309
"An inference method completes an argument template. It is used to automatically answer some questions based on the answers to other questions. The analyst answers the primitive questions in the question hierarchy, and the answers to the
derivative questions are automatically calculated."
"Arguments can be displayed as a tree of colored nodes." p. 312