Extensible Systems Dynamics Framework
Abstract
Modern defense strategy and execution has become more net-centric and distributed, allowing more information to be made available more rapidly. The warfighter must assemble decision-quality information from potentially inaccurate, or even conflicting, pieces of information collected from multiple sources. The Pedigree Management and Assessment Framework (PMAF) enables the publisher of information to record standard pedigree, such as information about the source, manner of collection, and the chain of modification of that information. In addition, the publisher can define and include other related information relevant to quality assessment, such as domain-specific information about sensor accuracy or organizational structure of agencies. PMAF stores this potentially enormous amount of information in a volume-efficient manner and presents the information to the user in an intuitive graphical format, together with PMAF-generated assessments that allow the user to quickly estimate information quality. PMAF has been created to be compatible with the Air Force Research Laboratory's Operational Information Management framework and a Web Services environment. It can access pedigree information across communities-of-interest and across network boundaries.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 2008
- Accession Number
- ADA481830
Entities
People
- Christopher Brooks
- Edward A. Lee
Organizations
- University of California Regents