The Goal-Means (GM) Meta Model

Abstract

National Security Innovations (NSI) developed a Goals-Means (GM) Meta-model of leadership decision-making as a component of the IARPA PAINT system. The GM Meta Model instantiates social psychological theories on human decision-making into a java program that provides analysts with a tool to replicate and deconstruct the complex decision calculus. The tool incorporates a range of decision criteria, heuristics and styles to approximate real human decision making to capture the values and priorities of leaders from varied cultural and historical contexts. In addition to modeling individual decision process, the GM meta-model models the effect of group dynamics and social influence to allow simultaneous analysis of multiple decisions from a dynamic set of decision makers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA499990

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  • Allison Astorino-courtois
  • Elisa Jayne Bienenstock
  • Kari Kelton
  • Pamela Toman
  • Robert Popp
  • Stacy Lovell-pfautz

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  • C4I
  • Human Systems

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  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Calculus
  • Databases
  • Decision Theory
  • Game Theory
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Human Behavior
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Science
  • Leadership
  • Money
  • National Security
  • Relational Databases
  • Security
  • Social Networks
  • Social Sciences

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