A NEW PARADIGM FOR ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX, NETWORKED, SOCIAL AND ENGINEERING SYSTEMS
Abstract
Many current military visions convincingly suggest that net-centric technology can provide unprecedentedlevels of performance, robustness, and efficiency. In these visions, the strategiccommand of information and decision-making renders obsolete the brute-force approach of overwhelmingan enemy with vast resources, with information and decisions playing a paramount role.Unfortunately, despite many declarations, this vision has not been fully realized. The technical obstaclesto implementing this vision are many and include: lack of a comprehensive theory for decentralizedinformation aggregation and strategic decision-making in large-scale networks whereinformation is incomplete, asymmetric, and the source and reliability of available information isnot clear; the problem of data deluge; our current inability to map local structure to global functionin complex information and decision networks and systems, and our lack of rigorous understandingof collective phenomena and systemic risk in complex networks. We currently do not know how tomonitor and measure systemic risk, the phenomena according to which small idiosyncratic shockscan combine to have aggregate effects and cascades.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Sep 23, 2016
- Source ID
- N000141612826
Entities
People
- Ali Jadbabaie
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- University of Pennsylvania