Improving ORM utilizing Implicit Collaboration & Context Sensitive Fusion

Abstract

George Mason University has developed a scalable, information-based, real-time methodology for sensor management. We propose to continue the development of this research by extending it to include mission management. The objective of the proposed research is to extend our concept of goal lattices to implicit collaboration (IC) of intelligence gathering platforms. The expected result is that implicit collaboration will be shown to be an effective method of indirect control of intelligence collection assets. The public purpose of this research is to enable effective information gathering resource allocation in the event of an unplanned disaster. Our method of Orchestrated Resource Management includes: •Cognitive collection based on entropy changes in a probabilistic model of the situation represented in a SIEV-Net. •Intelligence valuation through the use of our method of goal lattices. Goal lattices provide a quantitative method of assigning mission goal values to both situation and measurement information. • Decision space search methods are implemented in our method of ordering situation information requests and sensor actions. • Plan-optimization processes are implemented in an Information Instantiator which orders the set of currently available sensor functions to determine an admissible set as well as evaluate them based on their expected information value rate.

Document Details

Document Type
DoD Grant Award
Publication Date
Aug 08, 2016
Source ID
N002441510047

Entities

People

  • Kenneth Hintz

Organizations

  • George Mason University
  • United States Navy

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Graph Algorithms and Convex Optimization.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

  • Space