MIO Cortex: Memory Mechanisms for Operator-Expert Networked Decision Support

Abstract

Who: Since 2010, researchers led by the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School have conducted a series of experiments at the CEnter for NETwork Innovation and eXperimentation (CENETIX). Objective: to address threats to the United States and NATO installations overseas. Purpose: to examine Networked Decision Support System (NWDSS) means to detect and interdict nuclear and radiological materials. Where: portions of the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas. Results: operational models that contribute to the development of the Global Nuclear Detection Architecture (GNDA). We describe the emergence of Transactive Memory structures for a collective network of experts and operators (sensors), based upon observations of ongoing Maritime Interdiction Operation (MIO) detection and interdiction experiments. We consider the memory mechanism supporting a MIO networked DSS environment as a network parallel to a human cortex. The MIO cortex reveals itself through observation of its expert nodes. In the environment of a MIO experiment, different collaborative tools play the role of memory processors. These observations make subsequent experimental studies of MIO Cortex bursts and clustering interesting and challenging.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA588785

Entities

People

  • Alex B. Bordetsky
  • Steven Mullins

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Clustering
  • Command And Control
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Environment
  • Information Operations
  • Interdiction
  • Mesh Networks
  • Observation
  • Observers
  • Social Networks
  • United States
  • Video
  • Video Teleconferencing

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  • Computer Networking
  • Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
  • Neuroscience