Modelling Public Security Operations: Analysis of the Effect of Key Social, Cognitive, and Informational Factors with Security System Relationship Configurations for Goal Achievement

Abstract

More so than engineered systems, human factors, and specifically having humans-in-the-loop, can lead to unforeseen behaviours resulting in unexpected organizational failures. In the world of emergency response, these failures may be related not only to response activities, but also to information processing and sharing that consequently undermine the organizational ecosystems' situational awareness of unfolding events. The TIF project, Modelling Public Security Operations, has the goal of accounting for the human factor by more fully exploring its inherent complexity through experiments and simulations. This report presents the design, implementation and results of a Holistic Security Ecosystem (HSE) simulator for representing organizations and decision making processes and the impact of key social, cognitive and informational factors. Earlier research investigated key factors, processes, and simulation methodologies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA581942

Entities

People

  • Alexis Morris
  • Mihaela Ulieru
  • William Ross

Organizations

  • Defence Research and Development Canada

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Classification
  • Commerce
  • Communication Networks
  • Computer Science
  • Dynamics
  • Ecosystems
  • Emergencies
  • Emergency Response
  • Environment
  • Governments
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Processing
  • Security
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Systems Engineering

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Economics