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3rd international conference on information warfare and security
The United States has ceded the informational aspects of the Global War on Terror through lack of a campaign plan and lack of organization to execute it. As a result our enemies are free to foster the perception of a dichotomy between the policies and ideals…
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The violent acts of post-modern war are sometimes represented as long-distance communication. This paper examines the phrase send a message and others like it when used to refer to bombings, firing missiles, shooting civilians, etc. The metonymic reduction of…
View full recordiciw 2007 2nd international conference on i-warfare and security
The United States Air Force recently released a new mission statement adding cyberspace as an area of operations to achieve military goals and objectives. The ability to clearly articulate exactly what is and what is not cyberspace will greatly simplify the a…
View full recordproceedings of the 2007 international symposium on collaborative technologies and systems cts
The purpose of this paper is to draw the attention of the Collaborative Science and Technology community to the Scientific Methodology defined by Charles Sanders Peirce. It was conceived to fill a structural and knowledge void discovered by Peirce and which s…
View full record6th european conference on information warfare and security 2007 eciw 2007
In general, the understanding and self-awareness of the male and female roles are the main elements of ideas of value also in wars and conflicts. Strategic communication has two targets: its own military culture and global media audience. This article tries t…
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Late 19th century in Finland appears to have been a dress rehearsal period for modern-style media warfare. Enemy images broadcast by the media would soon include such allegedly most vicious antagonists as the Reds and Whites of the 1918 civil war, and Russian…
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In this paper we discuss the changing nature of monitoring and analysing information on competitors. Such exercise is nowadays performed at a relative ease. Indeed, the Internet and other large online proprietary business directories facilitate acquisition of…
View full recordproceedings of spie - the international society for optical engineering
The behaviour of a complex adaptive system (CAS) cannot be predicted from the behaviour of its constituent components. Individual components of the system interacts with each other such that the behaviour at the aggregate level is not predictable from knowled…
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Denial of service attacks, viruses and worms are common tools for malicious adversarial behaviour in networks. Experience shows that over the last few years several of these techniques have probably been used by governments to impair the Internet communicatio…
View full recordieee transactions on systems man and cybernetics part b cybernetics
We discuss Zadeh's paradigm of computing with words and indicate the three important stages. We focus on the retranslation process, selecting a term from our prescribed vocabulary to express information represented using fuzzy sets. A number of criteria of co…
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This article examines chemical, biological, nuclear, radiological, and explosives (CB-NRE) preparedness exercises in the United States. The paper argues that not only are preparedness exercises designed to test for weaknesses in the internal security and publ…
View full recordlecture notes in computer science including subseries lecture notes in artificial intelligence and lecture notes in bioinformatics
In the context of information warfare Libicki first characterized attacks on computer systems as being physical, syntactic, and semantic, where software agents were misled by an adversary's misinformation [1]. Recently cognitive hacking was defined as an atta…
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Three technologies form the heart of any network-centric command, control, communication, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) system: distributed processing, reconfigurable networking, and distributed resource management. Distributed proces…
View full recordproceedings of the human factors and ergonomics society
There has been a growing interest in using Cognitive Systems Engineering (CSE) techniques to understand work domains and the cognitive demands they imposes on practitioners in order to provide a foundation for the design of decision-aids. While CSE techniques…
View full recordwinter simulation conference proceedings
Joint Warfare System (JWARS) is a campaign-level model of military operations. User will include the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), the Joint Staff, the Services, and the US Warfighting Commands. Program requirements documents specify implementatio…
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Military missions are increasingly contingent upon the 'emergent qualities' of distributed cognition. Cognition is situated and shared across multiple agents, objects, and environments. The total information surround is evolutionary, chaotic, and presents wor…
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The functions of a conceptual, future `watch center' whose mission is to support Air Force information assurance requirements are presented. A cognitive systems engineering approach is described. This method inserts multi-sensory, user interface technologies…
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While the acronym UCAV stands for Uninhabited Combat Aerial Vehicles, it might alternatively be associated with Unspecified, Collaborative, Adaptive and Vulnerable systems. The alternative label emphasizes the fact that the technology of remotely piloted vehi…
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This paper investigates the application of fuzzy uncertainty management to Information Warfare Simulation (SimIW). Information Warfare (IW) is manifested in uncertainty, no resolved or conclusive definition currently exists. From the creation of false signals…
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