On the exploitation of human inductive thought and intuition in future global command and control architectures
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Authors
White, Timothy J.
Subjects
Command
Control
Communications
Computers
Information
Intelligence
C2
C3I
C4I
C4I2
Intelligent control
Information fusion
Situation assessment
Decisionmaking
Intuition
Inductive reasoning
Deductive reasoning
Control
Communications
Computers
Information
Intelligence
C2
C3I
C4I
C4I2
Intelligent control
Information fusion
Situation assessment
Decisionmaking
Intuition
Inductive reasoning
Deductive reasoning
Advisors
Petho, Frank C.
Boger, Dan C.
Date of Issue
1993-06
Date
June 1993
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
Enabling technologies available today can be integrated to provide the necessary bandwidth, access, and computational power to support advanced global command and control architectures, but humans will ultimately use these architectures to select a course of action. People will continue to make decisions. The interface between the human operator and information collected, processed, fused, and disseminated by these advanced architectures is the element that injects the greatest potential risk of failure within these systems. This thesis examines that interface. The technical and doctrinal aspects of advanced command and control architectures were discussed. The concept of 'information pull' was examined. The role information fusion plays in human situation assessment of the battlespace were delineated. Computer assisted inductive reasoning which exploits human intuitive powers was introduced as a potential design feature in the user interface. Recommendations for its inclusion in future command and control architectures were made.
Type
Thesis
Description
Series/Report No
Department
Command, Control and Communications Academic Group
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Identifiers
NPS Report Number
Sponsors
Funder
Format
179 p.
Citation
Distribution Statement
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
Rights
This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.