Information Operations: Creating New Frontiers for Data Fusion and Mining Technology

Abstract

The recent developments in the definition of doctrine for information operations and the implementation of systems to enable the conduct of those operations pose new challenges to the application of data fusion and data mining technologies. This paper describes the basic reasoning processes underlying both data fusion and data mining, and discusses the critical role of these processes to enable the development of increasingly complex information operations (IO). The development of IO, this paper asserts, has opened three challenging frontiers of development that must be addressed by data fusion and mining developers. These frontiers include: (1) The need to apply the processes beyond the physical domain, to encompass the symbolic and cognitive domains of reality, (2) The need to extend the processes to deal with subjective and qualitative data, and (3) The need to develop collaborative fusion and mining processes that collaborate with human teams to solve complex problems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA392190

Entities

People

  • Ed Waltz

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence Computing
  • Cognition
  • Data Fusion
  • Data Mining
  • Data Sets
  • Detection
  • Human Intelligence
  • Imagery Intelligence
  • Information Operations
  • Information Warfare
  • Intelligence Collection
  • Language
  • Psychology
  • Reasoning
  • Signals Intelligence
  • Supply Chain
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy