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mind and society
Humans continuously delegate and distribute cognitive functions to the environment to lessen their limits. They build models, representations, and other various mediating structures, that are thought to be good to think. The case of scientific innovation is p…
View full recordproceedings of spie - the international society for optical engineering
To date, cyber security investment by both the government and commercial sectors has been largely driven by the myopic best response of players to the actions of their adversaries and their perception of the adversarial environment. However, current work in a…
View full record11th european conference on information warfare and security 2012 eciw 2012
Strategic communication is developing into an identified function of a successful information-age military operation. However, it is a concept which is still often misunderstood in the military. Leaders from strategic to tactical level must operate in an info…
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A defining characteristic of the emergence of new organizational landscapes is that information is not just being used as a tool by organizations, as it is more usually understood, but also as a weapon in a 'war of position'. As organizations seek to influenc…
View full recordmedia power and the transformation of war
Do the news media have any role in the transformation of war and warfare? Focusing on television, this book argues that the news media alters the cognitive and strategic environment of the actors of war and politics and therefore changes the way these interac…
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Information superiority is the most critical asset in war making. It directly addresses the perception of the opponent and in the long term the will of him to act. Sun Tzu's classical text states this fact by the concept of deception as the basis of all warfa…
View full recordxitong fangzhen xuebao / journal of system simulation
In the Agent-based warfare simulation, the behavior of Agents representing the fighters is very complicated. The event routine-oriented simulation strategy makes the description and execution of Agent's simulation models lack of flexibility and expandability,…
View full record2011 3rd international conference on cyber conflict iccc 2011 - proceedings
Appraisals of Russian military performance during the armed conflict with Georgia in August 2008 noted, among other deficiencies, poor performance in Information Warfare (IW). This led to calls in informed commentary for the creation of dedicated Information…
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The history of combat is primarily the history of radically changing fields of perception. In other words, war consists not so much of scoring territorial, economic or other material victories but of appropriating the immateriality of perceptual field. The fu…
View full recordjournal of african media studies
The article focuses on the use of metaphors during the 2007 pre- and post-election violence in Kenya that left at least 1400 people dead and more than 350,000 internally displaced. During and after the violence, vernacular radio stations, though not entirely…
View full record10th european conference on information warfare and security 2011 eciw 2011
Appropriate training and knowledge development is highly relevant to leaders and security professionals in the fields of information warfare and counter-terrorism. Scenario-based training methodology has a long history among military, law enforcement, emergen…
View full record5th european conference on information management and evaluation ecime 2011
The concept is not new. In fact we've learned from Sun Tzu that "Those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle." However Effects Based Operations definition, development and operationalization has been subjected to disparate analyses, doctrines,…
View full record6th international conference on information warfare and security iciw 2011
War engages civilians in a very different way than is traditionally understood. The military-industrial complex has rooted itself permanently into the civilian world. In the US, recruiters have long operated in university campuses, the Pentagon has funded the…
View full record2011 3rd international conference on cyber conflict iccc 2011 - proceedings
Autonomous Baiting, Control and Deception of Adversarial Cyberspace Participants (ABCD-ACP) is an experimental defensive framework against potentially adversarial cyberspace participants, such as malicious software and subversive insiders. By deploying fake t…
View full recordwar in history
During the Vietnam War the US government in conjunction with the government of South Vietnam instituted a plan encouraging desertion from the Viet Cong and the 'return to the embrace of the Vietnamese Nation'. A successful implementation of this plan, the Chi…
View full recordacm international conference proceeding series
We apply the three-layer survivability analysis architecture developed by Ma & Krings (Ma & Krings 2009, Ma 2008) in the context of distributed networks (such as wireless sensor networks) to the study of strategic information warfare. To simplify the research…
View full recordcryptology and information security series
The last couple of decades have seen a colossal change in terms of the influence that computers have on the battle field, to an extent that defence pundits claim it to be a dawn of a new era in warfare. The use of computers and information in defence has mani…
View full record8th european conference on information warfare and security 2009 eciw 2009
Nowadays, information is one of the most important resources in an organization, supporting most of the business processes. So, organizations must try to guarantee at all times information's fundamental properties: confidentiality, integrity, and availability…
View full recordlecture notes in computer science including subseries lecture notes in artificial intelligence and lecture notes in bioinformatics
Competition, cooperation and communication are the three fundamental relationships upon which natural selection acts in the evolution of life. Evolutionary game theory (EGT) is a 'marriage' between game theory and Darwin's evolution theory, it gains additiona…
View full recordaaai fall symposium - technical report
Irregular Warfare (IW), with its emphasis on social and cognitive phenomena such as population sentiment, is a major new focus of the Department of Defense (DoD). One of the most important classes of IW action is Information Operations (10), the use of inform…
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