A Semantic Wiki for Complex Operations Community

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Overview

In this project, we are developing a semantic wiki for the complex operations community. Click on play below to watch a screencast overview. Visit complexoperations.org.


Semantic Wiki for Complex Operations

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Mission Develop a semantic wiki for Counterinsurgency, Stability, Security, Transition and Reconstruction operations, and irregular warfare
Sponsor Image:ONR_Logo.JPG [ONR]
Demonstration complexoperations.org

Need

As codified by the National Defense Authorization Act 2009, a Complex Operation is:

  • A stability operation
  • A security operation
  • A transition and reconstruction operation
  • A counterinsurgency operation
  • An operation consisting of irregular warfare

Such operations require the collaboration among US DoD components, US Department of State, USAID, Host Nation government, international Non-Governmental Agencies (NGOs). We conducted an online survey to capture the knowledge processing needs and wants of the complex operations community. Complex Operations practitioners seek reference, doctrinal, historical and process knowledge  from  disparate sources and information portals. Limitations of current solutions include document centric knowledge representation that does not support structured browsing, keyword search interfaces not suitable to question answering.

Approach

Our solution is a semantic wiki to model, aggregate and reason about knowledge chunks from 

Benefits

Regular wikis support text and hyperlink based knowledge capture that enables traditional hypertext navigation and keyword searches. In contrast, a semantic wiki supports knowledge capture as facts and relationships that enables database like queries for knowledge discovery. The advantages of using a semantic wiki approach include:

  • Represent expert and model driven facts and relationships
  • Automate growth of knowledge using dynamic tables, graphs, charts
  • Leverage existing knowledge like DBpedia via Sparql end points
  • Extend semantic wiki with GIS support
  • Power an answers engine

Applications

Serve as a knowledge repository for the strategy, plan and execution of complex operations to answer:

  • What tensions between minorities should I be aware of in a 10 square mile Area of Operations?
  • What are the local tribes and sub-tribes? What are their beliefs and how might they affect the desired operation?
  • Provide me with an up to date list of stability initiatives over the last 10 years in this region/country - highlight results and issues.


References

  • Stroh, L., Caglayan, A., Rashed, T., Burke, D., and Eaton, G., (2010) Geospatial Campaign Management for Complex Operations, 1st International Conference on Cross-Cultural Decision Making, 3rd International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE), July 17-20, 2010, Miami, FL.
  • Caglayan, A. Tribal Human Terrain of Afghanistan milcord blog. July 7, 2010.
  • Rashed, T. (2010) Geospatial Campaign Design for COIN Civil Affairs , First GeoDesign Summit. ESRI, Redlands, CA, Jan. 6-8, 2010.
  • Stroh, L. M., Burke, D., Zhao, Y. T., Caglayan, A., (2009) A System Dynamics Model of Counterinsurgency in Southern Afghanistan , 2009 NAACSOS (North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Sciences) Annual Conference, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, October 23-24, 2009. abstract
  • Guttieri, K., Caglayan, A. (2009) " Rumour and Perception amidst Social Conflict , European Consortium for Political Research, 5th General Conference, Potsdam, Germany, Sep. 10-12, 2009. abstract
  • Stroh, L., Caglayan, A., Burke, D., Eaton, G., and Guttieri, K. (2009) “Knowledge Management Needs of the Complex Operations Community", OSD Human Social Culture Behavior (HSCB) Modeling Program: Focus 2010, 5-7 August 2009, Chantilly, VA.
  • Caglayan, A., Stroh, L., Burke, D., and Eaton, G. (2009) “A Hybrid Knowledge Framework for Complex Operations", OSD Human Social Culture Behavior (HSCB) Modeling Program: Focus 2010, 5-7 August 2009, Chantilly, VA.
  • Burke, D.,, Caglayan, A., Stroh, L., Zhao, Y. T., and Eaton, G. (2009) “An Open Source Social Science Data Repository for HSCB Research ", OSD Human Social Culture Behavior (HSCB) Modeling Program: Focus 2010, 5-7 August 2009, Chantilly, VA.
  • Caglayan, A., Burke, D., Eaton, G., Qamar, S., Caglayan, J., and Cingranelli, D., Regan, P., Bell, S., Frank, R. (2009) Predictive Societal Indicators of Radicalism (PSIR), AFRL/RIEA Final Report, Rome, NY, January, 2009. abstract
  • Guttieri, K. "Complex Operations: Research and Education", Consortium for Complex Operations Kickoff Conference, 29 April 2008.
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