Harnessing Multiple Representations for Autonomous Full-Spectrum Political, Military, Economic, Social, Information and Infrastructure (PMESII) Reasoning
Abstract
Assessing the effects of various actions on particular varieties of battlespace entities has been impeded by the absence of a representative computational model of the governing dynamics between so-called Political, Military, Economic, Social, Information, and Infrastructure (PMESII) elements in the theater of operations. Associated with each of these categories are formalisms suitable for computational implementation. Currently, we are lacking a way to describe the nonlinear dependence of each category on the others. We have proposed that the formal systems used to describe each of these categories can be described within an abstracted, yet common representational framework and therefore heterogeneous reasoning across the PMESII spectrum may be within our grasp. The Polyscheme architecture (Cassimatis 2002) was utilized to perform this integration, and to demonstrate that non-trivial reasoning about PMESII elements and their complex network of relationships may be computationally realizable.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 2007
- Accession Number
- ADA469995
Entities
People
- Nicholas L. Cassimatis
Organizations
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute