New Software Platform Capabilities and Experimentation Campaign for ELICIT
Abstract
ELICIT is the Experimental Laboratory for Investigating Information-sharing Collaboration and Trust. A project of the Command and Control Research Program (CCRP) within the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (NII), the ELICIT project developed an online multi-user software platform for conducting experiments in information-sharing and trust. The initial version of the software allowed researchers to model and experiment with a limited set of Command and Control (C2) organizations processes and approaches in a computer-instrumented environment. The ELICIT software has since been enhanced to allow organization type to be configurable, thereby allowing researchers to experiment with a wider variety of C2 organizations, processes and approaches. In addition, the software has been further enhanced to support software agents as well as human participants, greatly expanding the avenues for research. Although the introduction and use of ELICIT remain relatively recent events considerable research has been conducted already using this experimentation platform and the C2 Research Community is gaining commensurate experience and insight into sound research design. Building upon such research and experience, we develop a multidimensional campaign for continued experimentation using the ELICIT platform. The campaign is populated with recent studies and guides future researchers toward high payoff research areas that can be addressed using ELICIT.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2008
- Accession Number
- ADA487140
Entities
People
- Mark Nissen
- Mary Ruddy