Human Social Culture Behavior (HSCB) Modeling Applied Research

Abstract

The Human Social Culture Behavior (HSCB) Modeling Program is a vertically integrated effort to research, develop, and transition technologies, tools, and systems to programs of record and users in need. In three integrated program elements (PEs), the Program will conduct applied research, mature and demonstrate advanced technology, and develop transition-ready components and prototypes. The Program will create software tools that will help intelligence analysts, operations analysts, operations planners, and wargamers represent, understand, and forecast socio-cultural behavior at the strategic, operational and tactical levels. Work under PE 0602670D8Z will focus on developing an applied science base and general-use, cross-domain capabilities/tools to support the HSCB application domains of analysis, operational planning, training, and operations experimentation (wargaming). Research will address needs in four areas: modeling, visualization, training, and data. It will: develop and validate theoretical constructions, generate knowledge products, and develop stand-alone computational models of socio-cultural behavior; develop methods for visualizing socio-cultural behavior variables and their associated complexity and uncertainty; identify cultural competencies indexed to warfighter tasking and develop methods for flexible training of socio-cultural knowledge, skills, and abilities at tactical and operational levels; and develop improved methods for valid collection of quality socio-cultural data that will facilitate subsequent model development and validation. Human behavior based theory, knowledge products, and stand-alone models will support development of software to help users represent, understand, and forecast socio-cultural behavior at strategic, operational, and tactical levels. Visualization methods will support rapid assessment of the human activity environments, social, cultural, behavioral at strategic to tactical levels. Socio-cultural competencies and training methods will enable development of software tools that can support agile, efficient delivery of innovative and high impact training. Improved data collection methods will help build the socio-cultural science base and facilitate subsequent model development and validation.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2012
• Source ID: P270_0602670D8Z_2_0400_PB_2012

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