MAJOR Multiple Agency and Jurisdiction Organized Response

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MAJORMultiple Agency and Jurisdiction Organized
Response

• March 21, 2006

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National Science Foundation Program Announcement
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NSFs ITR Program

• Core science
• Selected research challenges
• Improving our ability to understand, model, and
  control the behavior of complex systems as well
  as their effects on society and the economy
• Using IT ... To improve our ability ... To
  recover from singular events, whether man-made or
  natural

... theory of computability and complexity
exploration of physical, chemical, and biological
phenomena that support computing devices
storage, curation, and analysis of massive data
sets networking and communications capabilities
to overcome the barriers of time and space and
open new frontiers of human interaction and
ingenuity modeling and simulating processes in
science and engineering at all length and time
scales modeling human behavior, interactions and
cognitive process
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NSF Workshop
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MAJOR Problem Statement

• Coordination problem
• Complexity of functional, geographic, and
  political relationships
• Goal Create computational representation
  (model) of
• Resource pools and personnel constraints
• Functional capabilities
• Jurisdictional constraints
• Organizational culture
• Organizational networks
• Communications

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Core Concepts

• Organizational complexity (Perrow)
• Enacted environment (Weick)
• Knowledge transfer (Senge, Mary Douglas)
• Culture and identity (Durkheim, Mauss,
  Levi-Strauss)

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Solution Options

• Evaluation tool
• Decision support tool
• Training and research tool

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Experimental Tools Modeling, Simulation, and
Optimization

• Model I/C known, output unknown
• Optimization C/O known, input unknown
• Simulation I/O known, computation unknown

Input (I) Output (O)
Compu-tation (C)
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Modeling and simulation concepts

• Caveat Looseness in the use of the word model
• Experimental models (top-down)
• derived from theory, simplified structure
• e.g., lunar lander, pharmacological models
• Parametric models and simulations
• more realistic, based on experimental data sets
• heavily parameterized, massively computational
• e.g., weather models
• Simulators for research and training

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Basic Sources for an identity model

• Structural anthropology totemism
  (Levi-Strauss), primitive classification
  (Durkheim and Mauss)
• Symbolic interactionism, Social psychology
  Garfinkel, stereotyping theory
• Psychology identification and
  identity-formation
• Postmodernism flexible identities

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The Emergence of Identity
Culturally supplied/emergent categories
Schema
Networks
Roles
Functional and Connective behavior
Band of brothers
Big Red Trucks
Material Objects
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The Emergence of Identity
Schema
Networks
Roles
Material Objects
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Sources of data, I Static
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Sources of Data II Dynamics
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Model Variables
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Tasks
For project management purposes, the clock
started 1/1/05.