PEOPLE, ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS.

Abstract

This paper deals with the methodology, execution, and results of an empirical program for assessing the effectiveness of the human and organizational elements in military communication net works in terms of a trade off between the control of error and the delay involved in error control. As all information to be transmitted by the system does not inherently require equal freedom from error and delay, an information characterization scheme is introduced. Information is characterized in terms of its (a) urgency, (b) importance, and (c) policy status. The operating characteristics of the various system elements in terms of error and delay are then measured and examined in terms of homogeneous groupings of the information characteristics. Problems involved in the execution of the data collection program in operating Army headquarters are considered and a number of instruments for route tracing and delay and error measurement are discussed. Selected results are presented and their implications for the design of new systems discussed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1963
Accession Number
AD0414724

Entities

People

  • Benedict R. Jacobellis
  • Joel N. Bloom

Organizations

  • Franklin Institute

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Coding
  • Command And Control
  • Communication Equipment
  • Communication Systems
  • Contracts
  • Decoding
  • Engineering
  • Government Procurement
  • Identification
  • Military Communications
  • Networks
  • Notation
  • Observation
  • Observers
  • Operations Research
  • Questionnaires

Readers

  • Applied Combinatorial Optimization and Logic Circuit Design.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control