A Smarter Common Operational Picture: The Application of Cognitive Work Analysis to Naval Command and Control.

During the last ten years significant steps have been made in connecting military command and control systems from different defense forces in joint and combined operations. However, a common operational picture (COP) that provides all actors within the defense organization with sufficient, accurate, and timely information is still an elusive...

Ship Signature Management System: Functionality

A signature of a platform is the manner in which the platform manifests itself to a certain type of sensor and how observable it is when such a sensor is used to detect the platform. Because many military platforms use sensors in different media, it is the total of its different signatures that makes a platform more or less observable to an...

Adaptive Automation Based on an Object-Oriented Task Model: Implementation and Evaluation in a Realistic C2 Environment

Staffing reduction initiatives and more complicated military operations lead to a higher cognitive workload in command and control (C2) environments. Extending automation with adaptive capabilities can aid the human in overcoming cognitive workload challenges. At present, most adaptive automation research has focused on laboratory experiments...

Adaptive Automation in a Naval Combat Management System

There is a continuing trend of letting fewer people deal with larger amounts of information in more complex situations using highly automated systems. In such circumstances, there is a risk that people are overwhelmed by information during intense periods or, on the other hand, do not build sufficient situational awareness during periods of...

Situated cognitive engineering: Developing adaptive track handling support for naval command and control centers

Future naval missions set high operational, human factors, and technical demands for a system that enhances human-machine teams’ capabilities to cope with complex and potentially hazardous situations. This paper presents a situated Cognitive Engineering (sCE) methodology for an integrated analysis of these three types of demands, the derivation...

Combat-ldentificationtechnieken

In dit artikel wordt een overzicht gegeven van de problematiek rondom het thema “eigen vuur” en de mogelijke maatregelen die men kan treffen om deze problematiek te verminderen. Daarbij ligt de focus op technologische maatregelen variërend van systemen die de situational awareness bevorderen door middel van het opbouwen en doorgeven van een...

A closed-loop adaptive system for command and control

On Navy ships, technological developments enable crews to work more efficiently and effectively. However, in such complex, autonomous, and information-rich environments a competition for the users' attention is going on between different information items, possibly leading to a cognitive overload. This overload originates in the limitations of...

Adaptive Automation using an object-orientated task model

On naval ships the crew is assisted by a combat management system (CMS) in their assessment of the tactical situation around the ship and their subsequent actions. Today’s information-rich littoral environments force operators to divide attention between different information items. The risk of overload is imminent and the concept of adaptive...

A case study of a multiobjective recombinative genetic algorithm with coevolutionary sharing

We present a multiobjective genetic algorithm that incorporates various genetic algorithm techniques that have been proven to be efficient and robust in their problem domain. More specifically, we integrate rank based selection, adaptive niching through coevolutionary sharing, elitist recombination, and non-dominated sorting into a...

A Case Study of a Multiobjective Elitist Recombinative Genetic Algorithm with Coevolutionary Sharing

We present a multiobjective genetic algorithm that incorporates various genetic algorithm techniques that have been proven to be efficient and robust in their problem domain. More specifically, we integrate rank based selection, adaptive niching through coevolutionary sharing, elitist recombination, and non-dominated sorting into a...