Digital Deception: The Cognitive and Social Mechanisms of the Spread of Fake News

Abstract

This project investigates coupled sensor configuration and planning (CSCP) for autonomous systems, which is a mode of active control of information in context to a decision-making problem. We consider a scenario consisting of a network of mobile vehicles called sensors, and a separate network of mobile vehicles called actors. Sensors gather information about the environment whereas actors perform desired tasks. Specifically, the actors perform tasks encoded in terms of multi-vehicle route-planning problems in a threatening environment. The threat is an unknown spatiotemporally-varying scalar field that is estimated using observations made by sensors.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 07, 2021
Accession Number
AD1144438

Entities

People

  • Kristina Lerman

Organizations

  • University of Southern California

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • California
  • Cognitive Science
  • Covid-19
  • Data Science
  • Data Sets
  • Disinformation
  • Disinformation Operations
  • Health
  • Human Behavior
  • Information Operations
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Machine Learning
  • Networks
  • Neural Networks
  • Online Communications
  • Public Health
  • Scientific Research
  • Social Media
  • Social Networking Services
  • Social Networks
  • United States
  • World Wide Web

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Autonomous System Control