Modeling the Impact of Value of Information on Situational Awareness using C3TRACE

Abstract

Situational awareness (SA) is critical to making good decisions on the battlefield. For the military intelligence analyst, SA is built by the assessment of incoming reports. It is hard to tell good information from bad before assessing the reports, and in todays age of unprecedented amounts of data, it is simply impossible to assess all available reports in a time-limited military scenario. The US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has developed the value of information (VoI) metric to mitigate the overwhelming amount data available. In this report, ARL researchers use C3TRACE software to simulate a basic human intelligence reports analysis process and observe if the results support the hypothesis that the VoI metric improves the SA gained in time-limited scenario.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1009847

Entities

People

  • John T. Richardson
  • Mark R. Mittrick
  • Timothy P. Hanratty

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analysts
  • Army Training
  • Command And Control
  • Data Sets
  • Experimental Design
  • Human Intelligence
  • Information Science
  • Intelligence Analysts
  • Military Research
  • Models
  • Normal Distribution
  • Ratings
  • Simulations
  • Situational Awareness

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.