• Evaluation of Geospatial Digital Support Products 

  Powell, Walter A.; Laskey, Kathryn Blackmond; Adelman, Leonard; Johnson, Ryan; Dorgan, Shiloh; Hieb, Micheal; Braswell, Kenneth; Powers, Michael (2010-04-20)

  Geospatial Reasoning has been an essential aspect of military planning since the invention of cartography. Geospatial Digital Support Products (GDSPs) are ubiquitous within current military forces as well as civil and ...
• Rapid Synthesis of Multi-Model Simulations for Computational Experiments in C2 

  Neema, Himanshu; Nine, H.; Hemingway, G.; Sztipanovits, J.; Karsai, G. (2009-10-06)

  Abstract-Virtual evaluation of complex command and control concepts demands the use of heterogeneous simulation environments. Development challenges include how to integrate multiple simulation platforms with varying ...
• BML Enabled Information Exchange Framework in SES Ontology for C2 

  Lee, Hojun; Zeigler, Bernard (2009-10-05)

  This paper explores the Information Exchange Framework (IEF) concept of distributed data fusion sensor networks in Network-centric environment. It is used to build up integrative battlefield pictures through the Battle ...
• Representing Geospatially Enabled Command and Control Information within the JC3IEDM 

  Roberts, John (2009-09-29)

  The transition to Commander-centric network-enabled Command and Control (C2) is well underway within the US Army and Department of Defense (DOD). The foundation of this approach is an information superiority-enabled concept ...
• Net-Centric Adapter for Legacy Systems 

  Thomas, Alan; Turner, Thomas; Soderlund, Scott (2008)

  The Net-Centric Adapter for Legacy Systems (NCALS) is a software technology that makes legacy system data and services available in near real-time to the Global Information Grid (GIG). The intent of NCALS is to lower the ...
• Linear Referencing for Network Analysis of IED 

  Curtin, Kevin M. (2009-09-15)

  This paper outlines a motivation for associating IED events (and other significant physical and human geographic features) with the road network, describes the use of methods known as linear referencing in order to do so, ...
• CWID 08 Demonstrates Rapid Evolutionary 

  Gunderson, C.R.; Raytheon, David Minton (2008)

  Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration 2008 (CWID 08), Interoperability Trial (IT) #5.64 “Trusted Enterprise Service Bus” (T-ESB) demonstrates a potentially quantum improvement in the government procurement model ...
• Evaluation of High Resolution Imagery and Elevation Data 

  Powell, Walter A.; Laskey, Kathryn Blackmond; Adelman, Leonard; Johnson, Ryan; Altenau, Michael; Goldstein, Andrew; Visone, Daniel; Braswell, Kenneth (Proceeding of 14th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, 2009-06)

  How does the underlying data affect the ability of warfighters to derive useful information and make decisions? The Army Topographic Engineering Center (TEC) and GMU endeavor to shed light on this question with the third ...
• Belief in Belief Functions: An Examination of Shafer's Canonical Examples 

  Laskey, Kathryn B. (North-Holland, 1989)

  In the canonical examples underlying Shafer-Dempster theory, beliefs over the hypotheses of interest are derived from a probability model for a set of auxiliary hypotheses. A belief function differs from a Bayesian probability ...
• Credibility Models for Multi-Source Fusion 

  Wright, Edward J.; Laskey, Kathryn B. (2006-07)

  This paper presents a technical approach for fusing information from diverse sources. Fusion requires appropriate weighting of information based on the quality of the source of the information. A credibility model ...
• A Proposal for a W3C XG on Uncertainty Reasoning for the World Wide Web 

  Laskey, Kenneth J.; Costa, Paulo C. G.; Laskey, Kathryn B. (Information Extraction & Transport, Inc. (IET), 2006-11)

  The Semantic Web envisions effortless cooperation between humans and computers, seamless interoperability and information exchange among web applications, and rapid and accurate identification and invocation of appropriate ...
• Probabilistic Ontologies for Efficient Resource Sharing in Semantic Web Services 

  Costa, Paulo C. G.; Laskey, Kathryn B.; Laskey, Kenneth J. (Information Extraction & Transport, Inc. (IET), 2006-11)

  Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a key technology to support interoperability among data and processing resources. Semantic interoperability requires mapping between vocabularies of independently developed resources, a ...
• PR-OWL: A Framework for Bayesian Ontologies 

  Costa, Paulo C.G.; Laskey, Kathryn B. (IOS Press, 2006-11)

  Across a wide range of domains, there is an urgent need for a wellfounded approach to incorporating uncertain and incomplete knowledge into formal domain ontologies. Although this subject is receiving increasing ...
• Bayesian ontologies in AI systems 

  Costa, Paulo C. G.; Laskey, Kathryn B.; AlGhamdi, Ghazi (2006-07-30)

  Ontologies have become ubiquitous in current-generation information systems. An ontology is an explicit, formal representation of the entities and relationships that can exist in a domain of application. Following a ...
• An Investigation of Machine Learning Techniques for Use in Training Agents for Military Simulations 

  Hieb, Michael R.; Pullen, J. Mark (2006-05-05)

  Agents assist users with performing tasks in computer-based applications. The current practice of building an agent involves a developer programming it for each task it must perform, but agents constructed in this manner ...
• Detecting Threatening Behavior Using Bayesian Networks 

  AlGhamdi, Ghazi; Laskey, Kathryn B.; Wang, Xun; Barbará, Daniel; Shackelford, Thomas; Wright, Edward J.; Fitzgerald, Julie (2006-03-06)

  This paper presents an innovative use of human behavior models for detecting insider threats to information systems. While most work in information security concerns detecting and responding to intruders, violations of ...
• Modeling Insider Behavior Using Multi-Entity Bayesian Networks 

  AlGhamdi, Ghazi; Laskey, Kathryn B.; Wright, Edward J.; Barbará, Daniel; Chang, K.C. (2006-03-06)

  This paper tackles a key aspect of the information security problem: modeling the behavior of insider threats. The specific problem addressed by this paper is the identification of malicious insider behavior in trusted ...
• PLASMA: Combining Predicate Logic and Probability for Information Fusion and Decision Support 

  Fung, Francis; Laskey, Kathryn B.; Pool, Michael; Takikawa, Masami; Wright, Edward J. (2006-02-06)

  Decision support and information fusion in complex domains requires reasoning about inherently uncertain properties of and relationships among varied and often unknown number of entities interacting in differing and often ...
• MEBN: A Logic for Open-World Probabilistic Reasoning 

  Laskey, Kathryn B. (2006-02-03)

  Uncertainty is a fundamental and irreducible aspect of our knowledge about the world. Probability is the most well-understood and widely applied logic for computational scientific reasoning under uncertainty. As theory and ...
• Multi-Entity Bayesian Networks without Multi-Tears 

  Costa, Paulo C. G.; Laskey, Kathryn B. (2006-01-27)

  An introduction is provided to Multi-Entity Bayesian Networks (MEBN), a logic system that integrates First Order Logic (FOL) with Bayesian probability theory. MEBN extends ordinary Bayesian networks to allow representation ...

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