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Appendix C: Candidate DIME/PMESII Modeling Paradigms
Pages 389-396

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... Nonexecutable modeling techniques are useful for visualizing complex models for human understanding and analysis; executable models are useful for providing automated analysis of the models. Reasoning of a modeling paradigm refers to the paradigm's ability to detect the direction of influence (not just connection)
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From page 390...
... Social networks Medium Yes Forward Medium GOTS OCCAM Backward (cra.com/contract-r-d/ cognitive-systems-occam.asp) Causal graph Medium Yes Forward Medium COTS BNet (cra.com/bnet)
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From page 391...
... Concept maps are a graphical two-dimensional display of concepts, connected by directed arcs encoding brief relationships (e.g., linking phrases) between pairs of concepts forming propositions.
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... Figure C-1 is an example concept graph encoding a generic behavioral model of a terrorist leader. Social Networks Social networks are similar to concept graphs, but they represent social structures.
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From page 393...
... provides tools for reasoning about social networks, their strengths and weaknesses, the structural roles played by particular indi­ viduals, and their dynamics over time. Because of the focus on the analysis of social structures, SNA is directly applicable to a range of PMESII modeling tasks.
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From page 394...
... Neural networks have been successfully used in diverse paradigms, such as recognition of speakers in communications, diagnosis of hepatitis, recovery of telecommunications from faulty software, interpretation of multimeaning Chinese words, undersea mine detection, texture analysis, three-dimensional object recognition, hand-written word recognition, and facial recognition. Neural networks would be useful in building PMESII models for those domains that have highly complex nonlinear relationships between input and output variables.
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From page 395...
... Situations provide a powerful representation of complex events spread over both space and time and, therefore, serve as a natural representation of a variety of PMESII models. Situation theory has been applied to a variety of fields including natural language understanding (Barwise and Perry, 1983)
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From page 396...
... . Rethinking the JDL data fusion levels.
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