Using multiple perspectives to suppress information and complexity

Robert L. Kelsey; Robert B. Webster; Roger T. Hartley

doi:10.1117/12.317674

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20 August 1998 Using multiple perspectives to suppress information and complexity

Robert L. Kelsey, Robert B. Webster, Roger T. Hartley

Proceedings Volume 3393, Digitization of the Battlespace III; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.317674
Event: Aerospace/Defense Sensing and Controls, 1998, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

Dissemination of battlespace information involves getting information to particular warfighters that is both useful and in a form that facilitates the tasks of those particular warfighters. There are two issues which motivate this problem of dissemination. The first issue deals with disseminating pertinent information to a particular warfighter. This can be thought of as information suppression. The second issue deals with facilitating the use of the information by tailoring the computer interface to the specific tasks of an individual warfighter. This can be thought of as interface complexity suppression. This paper presents a framework for suppressing information using an object-based knowledge representation methodology. This methodology has the ability to represent knowledge and information in multiple perspectives. Information can be suppressed by creating a perspective specific to an individual warfighter. In this way, only the information pertinent and useful to a warfighter is made available to that warfighter. Information is not removed, lost, or changed, but spread among multiple perspectives. Interface complexity is managed in a similar manner. Rather than have one generalized computer interface to access all information, the computer interface can be divided into interface elements. Interface elements can then be selected and arranged into a perspective-specific interface. This is done in a manner to facilitate completion of tasks contained in that perspective. A basic battlespace domain containing ground and air elements and associated warfighters is used to exercise the methodology.

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Robert L. Kelsey, Robert B. Webster, and Roger T. Hartley "Using multiple perspectives to suppress information and complexity", Proc. SPIE 3393, Digitization of the Battlespace III, (20 August 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.317674

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