Networked Approaches to Intractability
Abstract
The Networked Approaches to Intractability program will tackle complex problems such as corruption, human trafficking, and genocide that appear intractable. The U.S. military is increasingly involved with societies plagued by such seemingly self-perpetuating evils. Problems in this class often include social, cultural, ideological, political, and economic constraints, and consequently stakeholders with radically differing world views and frames of reference. Limited U.S. patience for long-term engagements and interconnectedness with other similarly complex problems further characterize the challenge. Social networking has shown initial promise for problems of this nature, such as bribery, though on a smaller scale. The Networked Approaches to Intractability program will develop social networking-based applications that incorporate recent breakthroughs in game theory and multi-party negotiation to break vicious social cycles and create virtuous social cycles. The program seeks approaches to modeling and reasoning about problems of this nature, incentive mechanisms to elicit relevant information from stakeholders, and the creation of tools for combatant commanders and stakeholders collaboratively addressing such challenges.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2014
- Source ID
- 49bb3e5bd3b6a5d2a67a8bf32db3e6a5