Toward a General Theory of C3 (Command, Control and Communications) Processes

Abstract

This report continues the past effort by the author in establishing an approach to a general theory of C3 processes and an ensuing decision game. Previous work is corrected, modified, and extended here. An outline of a general C3 decision game is first presented, utilizing as an integral part, a formal theory describing the evolution of a typical C3 node state vector. The determination of the C3 decision game also requires an algebraic logic description pair assigned to the formal theory, such as probability logic or fuzzy logic, depending on the type of information considered. In the probability logic case, a general result concerning uniform approximation by linear-Gaussian mixtures of distributions is presented. This is shown to have potentially good applications for carrying out reduced calculations of evolving node state distributions, as functionals of pertinent distributions of various C3 variables and relations. Keywords: C3 (Command and control communications), Formal theory, Stochastic processes, Linear regression, Gaussian sums, Algebraic logic.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA216154

Entities

People

  • I. R. Goodman

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boolean Algebra
  • Command And Control
  • Computations
  • Data Processing
  • Equations
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Formal Languages
  • Game Theory
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Input Output Processing
  • Language
  • Logic
  • Probability
  • Stochastic Processes
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Computer Engineering

Technology Areas

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