NDLI: Analyzing the quality of a system's perception of its information environment with special application to distributed military systems

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Parks, A.D. Gray, J.E.
Copyright Year	2004
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Syst. Res. & Technol., Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Div., VA, USA (Parks, A.D.; Gray, J.E.)
Abstract	To take advantage of recent and future advances in communications and information processing technology, military systems of the 21st century will create systems that enable the elements to operate as nodes in a geographically distributed information collection and processing network. Each network node is immersed in its local information environment. If a node is isolated from the rest of the system, then its perception of - as well as its response to the system's information environment is strictly local and based only upon data provided by its local sensor observations. However, completely autonomous responses to such locally determined perceptions can be undesirable from certain global network level perspectives. Fratricide, multiple engagements by weapons platforms and saturation of sensor resources by soft-kill weapons usage are all examples of unintended consequences of ignoring the global picture. In those cases where the exercise of some degree of coordination between individual platform elements is required for global coordination, it is necessary to have available for use by the system's decision functions sufficiently representative perceptions of pertinent aspects of the system's universal information environment. Such a network of perceptions must necessarily be synthesized using the mixture of measurements gathered from the local information environments of individual platform sensors. A method for quantifying the quality of perceptions has been developed. This method enables one to study several important system level problems from a perception quality perspective.
Sponsorship	IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Syst. Soc. IEEE Atlanta Section Georgia Tech Res. Inst
Starting Page	154
Ending Page	159
File Size	754071
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780382811
ISSN	00942898
DOI	10.1109/SSST.2004.1295639
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2004-03-16
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Information analysis Military communication Sensor systems Weapons Information processing Isolation technology Time measurement Network synthesis Position measurement Velocity measurement
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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