REsearch domains
The process of designing artifacts to represent and display spatial information so as to enable the battlestaffs and commanders to gain optimal situation awareness for envisioning, predicting, forecasting, and anticipating battlespace information.
Sensemaking & Situation Understanding:
Sensemaking is a process, a design, or a technique of fusing information in context to derive situation understanding from fragmentary pieces of information. The goal is to reduce information uncertainty, ambiguity and socially negotiate meaning during decision making events. Planning is a part of the sensemaking process.
Judgment & Decision Making:
We study how individuals or groups make judgment in asymmetrically evolving situations with multiple windows of decision opportunities. Decision support systems are developed to assess and measure the levels of decision superiority at different problem scales that range from chaos to anarchy.
Computational Organization Modeling Environment (COME):
We use mathematical and computer models to analyze emerging behaviors in complex organizations that experience chaos and complexity arising from multi-cultural interactions. We also study organizational policies that emerge from legislations, doctrines, and global cooperation and war and how they influence effect-based operations.
Cognitive Modeling & Simulation:
We use constructive simulation models to probe into individual and team cognitive processes while interacting with complex systems. Simulation tools such as social network analysis and MicroSaint are used. Sample domains include Joint Operational Environment (JOE), Stability and Security Operations (SASO) and Cultural Awareness Modeling for Robust Asymmetric Negotiation (CARMAN).
