Effects Based Assessment Support System (EBASS)

Abstract

The Effects Based Assessment Support System (EBASS) is a distributed operational assessment tool based on the principles of Value Focused Thinking (VFT) developed jointly by the Operations Research Center of Excellence (ORCEN) and the Information Technology and Operations Center (ITOC) at the US Military Academy. Its genesis is work done in support of the military command in Afghanistan in 2002. Effects based assessment is utilized to determine the progress of organization to influence behaviors or the environment to achieve a specific end state. In order to facilitate this, decision makers need a data collection and information visualization tool flexible enough to utilize measures most appropriate for the domain, which 1) provides a qualitative value model which can account for the decision makers most important evaluation considerations & measures, and 2) provides quantitative scoring functions and weights to evaluate alternatives.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA448132

Entities

People

  • Ernest Y. Wong
  • Michael J. Kwinn Jr.
  • Ronald C. Dodge Jr.
  • Simon R. Goerger
  • Thomas O. Morel

Organizations

  • United States Military Academy

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Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Afghanistan Conflict
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Html
  • Information Systems
  • Military Operations
  • Military Research
  • Military Science
  • Operations Research
  • Spreadsheet Software
  • Systems Engineering
  • United States
  • United States Central Command
  • United States Military Academy
  • Warfare

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.