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The background of this tutorial is a US Air Force Research Laboratory initiative to transform Air Force planning and operations assessment from a disjointed static approach based on paper documents into a unified dynamic approach based on a computational 'living plan'. Part of this initiative will rest on the development of an ontology of plans and of military operations, viewing the latter as forming a three-stage cycle of plan specification, plan execution, and post-execution review. This cycle is seen as continuously unfolding on the strategic, operational and tactical levels – hence 'living plan' – and a special role is played by the issue of coordinating collaborative agency across large organizations. The tutorial will deal with issues such as the following:
The background of this tutorial is a US Air Force Research Laboratory initiative to transform Air Force planning and operations assessment from a disjointed static approach based on paper documents into a unified dynamic approach based on a computational 'living plan'. Part of this initiative will rest on the development of an ontology of plans and of military operations, viewing the latter as forming a three-stage cycle of plan specification, plan execution, and post-execution review. This cycle is seen as continuously unfolding on the strategic, operational and tactical levels – hence 'living plan' – and a special role is played by the issue of coordinating collaborative agency across large organizations. The tutorial will deal with issues such as the following:


The ontology of shared agency across large organizations, including the role of command and control and planning doctrine
The ontology of shared agency across large organizations


Assessing assessments: how can we build feedback mechanisms into the planning and outcomes assessment process in order to ensure improvement over time?
Assessing assessments: how can we build feedback mechanisms into the planning and outcomes assessment process in order to ensure improvement over time?
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From tactical to strategic: how can we create computational environments that will take account of single- and multi-level collaborative agency?
From tactical to strategic: how can we create computational environments that will take account of single- and multi-level collaborative agency?
                  
                  
Kinetic sensors, video and HUMINT: how do we take account of multi-channel information?
 
                  
                  
Schedule
Schedule
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:Review of the history of approaches to military planning and operations assessment  
:Review of the history of approaches to military planning and operations assessment  
:Role of doctrine
:Role of doctrine (C2W, Joint Planning)
:Document control ontology
:Role of speech-act theory and document-act theory  
:Role of speech-act theory and document-act theory  
::Document Control Ontology
:::How actions control documents
:::How documents control documents
:::How documents control actions
:Plans vs Plan specifications  
:Plans vs Plan specifications  
   
   
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::Situational Awareness
::Situational Awareness
::Plan Preparation
::Plan Preparation
::Plan Commitment
::Plan Execution
::Plan Execution
::Plan Evaluation and Operations Assessment  
::Plan Evaluation and Operations / Outcomes Assessment  
:The underlying multidimensional information system  
:The underlying multidimensional information system  
:Data ingestion
:Data ingestion of multi-channel information
::Sensors
::Kinetic sensors
::Text
::video
::HUMINT
   
   
16:15 Break
16:15 Break

Revision as of 15:52, 19 October 2014

Tutorial organized as part of the 2014 Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Defense, and Security (STIDS) Conference

The background of this tutorial is a US Air Force Research Laboratory initiative to transform Air Force planning and operations assessment from a disjointed static approach based on paper documents into a unified dynamic approach based on a computational 'living plan'. Part of this initiative will rest on the development of an ontology of plans and of military operations, viewing the latter as forming a three-stage cycle of plan specification, plan execution, and post-execution review. This cycle is seen as continuously unfolding on the strategic, operational and tactical levels – hence 'living plan' – and a special role is played by the issue of coordinating collaborative agency across large organizations. The tutorial will deal with issues such as the following:

The ontology of shared agency across large organizations

Assessing assessments: how can we build feedback mechanisms into the planning and outcomes assessment process in order to ensure improvement over time?

From tactical to strategic: how can we create computational environments that will take account of single- and multi-level collaborative agency?


Schedule

13:00 Erik Thomsen

Review of existing military planning and operations assessment regimes
Identification of resulting problems
Gap assessment
Need: Ontology for Smart Information Grids for multi-level planning agencies

13:45 Barry Smith

Review of the history of approaches to military planning and operations assessment
Role of doctrine (C2W, Joint Planning)
Role of speech-act theory and document-act theory
Document Control Ontology
How actions control documents
How documents control documents
How documents control actions
Plans vs Plan specifications

14:30 Break

14:45 Barry Smith Introduction to the ontology of plans and of operations assessment rooted in the Information Artifact Ontology

15:30 Erik Thomsen

Realizing a computational framework for the living plan
Modules:
Situational Awareness
Plan Preparation
Plan Commitment
Plan Execution
Plan Evaluation and Operations / Outcomes Assessment
The underlying multidimensional information system
Data ingestion of multi-channel information
Kinetic sensors
video
HUMINT

16:15 Break

16:30 ET, BS and tutorial participants

Exploratory session to allow critical review, presentation of alternative approaches, identification of potential secondary uses

Background

Joint Operation Planning Command and Control of Joint Air Operations (JP 3.30) Joint Doctrine for Command and Control Warfare (JP 3.13.1)

Faculty

Erik Thomsen is Senior Scientist - Cognitive Systems at Charles River Analytics in Boston, MA. He has over 20 years experience creating analytical software and business applications with an emphasis on intelligent systems and socio-economic and environmental models. He is also the author of multiple publications on data integration and fusion, semantic technologies, visualization, pattern recognition, foundations of logic, language and mathematics, and of the influential textbook OLAP: Building Multidimensional Information Systems (Wiley, 2nd edition).

Barry Smith, founder of the Ontology for the Intelligence Community (now STIDS) conference series, is an internationally recognized leader in the field of ontology and semantic technology. He is Professor of Philosophy, Biomedical Informatics, Neurology, and Computer Science and Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo and Director of the National Center for Ontological Research.