AIE CSEDS: Initial Cognitive Systems Engineering Design Specification (CSEDS) for the ACWA(Trademark) Integrated Environment (AIE)

Abstract

This project is focused on developing an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) as a means for supporting a particular Cognitive Systems Engineering (CSE) methodology. This document examines the capabilities and features necessary to support the Applied Cognitive Work Analysis (ACWA (Trademark)) methodology. Such an IDE would enable decision support systems (DSS) in the areas of information warfare, command and control, and other complex military (as well as commercial) applications to be developed based on the cognitive demands of the domain. In addition, an IDE will enable these systems to be developed more quickly, at a lower cost, and with greater functionality than is currently possible using the available manually intensive tools. The effort described in the report is only an initial attempt to develop a complete design specification to support cognitive systems engineers. This project seeks to specify both the overall shape of the proposed IDE, as well as the specific displays. The envisioned IDE will be referred to herein as the ACWA Integrated Environment, or AW, and will serve as the integration point between insights gained from the ACWATM design artifacts and the resulting software engineering development activities. AlE will be a tool for software developers to maintain awareness of the "design basis" underlying the resulting system requirements and specifications, by forming a maintainable, traceable component of the functional design. Thus, our vision is to develop an IDE that simultaneously and seamlessly aids the experienced CSE analyst in the modeling and documentation aspects of the ACWA(Trademark) process, and the equally experienced software developer, during the construction of the resulting DSS.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA427006

Entities

People

  • Jack Mckee
  • James Gualtieri
  • Scott Potter
  • William Elm

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Cognitive Science
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Command And Control
  • Computers
  • Configuration Management
  • Construction
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Information Warfare
  • Psychology
  • Software Development
  • Systems Engineering
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Software Engineering
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

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