Trust and Information Sharing in Command and Control Environments

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• Dr. Kevin Chan, United States Army Research Lab
• Thursday 09 January 2014, 14:00-15:00
• Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Room 611.

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Tactical networks have often been considered solely as communication networks; but they are best modeled under a broader range of concepts, expanding from communication network perspectives to encompass the value of information and flow of intelligence as well as the social and interpersonal impact on networked environments. The ability to understand and model this increasingly complex and dynamic environment will allow for the improved design of such networks and organizations. We study this multi-disciplinary problem by developing methods to improve global performance metrics for tactical networks using a notion of composite trust. Trust impacts the flow of information on a network and is itself impacted by the network. We have developed a trust-based agent framework to study the relationship between network structure, behaviors and other network parameters and examine their impact on network performance metrics. This framework is based on an information sharing model that has connections to command (C2) and control theory. We provide an overview of C2 agility ideas related to this research.

Brief bio: Dr. Kevin Chan is research scientist with the Computational and Information Sciences Directorate at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (Adelphi, MD). Previously, he was an ORAU postdoctoral research fellow at ARL (2008-10). He has been involved in trust and distributed decision making research through ARL ’s Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance (NS CTA ) and the United States United Kingdom International Technology Alliance (US-UK ITA ). He has been active in the use and development of the agents for Experimental Laboratory for Investigating Collaboration, Information-sharing and Trust (ELICIT). At ARL , he is also involved in distributed consensus and opinion dynamics research. His work in trust and information sharing recently received the best paper award at the 2013 Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRiMS) conference. He holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and MSECE from Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA) (2003, 2008) and a BS ECE /EPP from Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) (2001).

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