Introduction to Architectures: HSCB Information - What It Is and How It Fits (or Doesn't Fit).

摘要

The military has voiced an increasing interest in introducing human, socio-cultural behavioural (HSCB) understanding into its education, training, intelligence and operational planning capabilities. The nature of the data required for developing a socio-cultural understanding presents challenges for the community, as does the relative immaturity of models and simulations in some of the disciplines that contribute to explaining socio-cultural phenomena. The objective of this paper is to deconstruct the problem of fitting HSCB data into simulations into several steps, starting with the vocabularies in which we begin to express the problem space and concluding with a brief review of two architectures one designed for the analytic community and the other, already adopted by NATO, that enables distributed simulation. The author concludes that the greatest potential use for unifying architectures is their ability to provide researchers and practitioners an environment in which to explore, discover and advance the state of the art.