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ARAKNID

Anytime Reasoning and Analysis for Kill-Web Negotiation and Instantiation across Domains (ARAKNID) - The C4I & Cyber Center supports Raytheon-BBN technologies providing state-of-the-art research on Applied ExplainableAI and Probabilistic Semantic Technologies. ARAKNID is part of the DARPA ACK Program (link: https://www.darpa.mil/program/adapting-cross-domain-kill-webs) and is being developed to manage data on various threats in real-time to help decisions involving weapons, sensors and military assets. Important decisions are ultimately made by a real person, but automating machine-to-machine interactions is a significant tactical advantage when seconds and minutes matter.

Inference Enterprise Multi-Modeling

Semantic Testbed for Inference Enterprise Multi-Modeling: An inference enterprise model uses available information about an inference enterprise to predict performance of the enterprise.

NATO MSG145 and C2SIM

C4I & Cyber Center projects have coordinated and supported NATO and SISO projects in Command and Control – Simulation Interoperation (C2SIM). It was formerly known as Battle Management Language (BML). Our work with NATO is described in our video and our standards work has reached the point of balloting in SISO.

The C2SIM-Cyber project adds to the C2SIM server the ability to impress Cyber effects on C2SIM messages as they pass through the server, to support effective Army operational training in environments where Cyber attacks may occur.
NATO MSG145/C2SIM video

Building Sustainable Resilience

STAR-TIDES and Collaborative Community Resilience (CCR) plan to help build individual and community resilience to natural and man-made emergencies while increasing economic and other opportunities in under-served communities

Probabilistic Ontologies

Probabilistic Ontologies: The C4I Center pioneered PR-OWL, a language for augmenting OWL ontologies with constructs for representing uncertainty, and collaborates with the University of Brasilia on an open-source tool for building and using PR-OWL ontologies.

Command&Control/Simulation Testbed

Command and Control Simulation Testbed for International Collaborative Experimentation: Support by our industry partners and staffed as part of our international collaborative research.

SmartNode Pod

SmartNode Pod: The SmartNode Pod is designed to establish battlefield interoperability and is to be flown on either manned or unmanned aircraft to establish an airborne hub that will increase ranges for communications as well as networks.

Innovation House

Innovation House: Support for a DARPA pilot using rapid "sprints" of code, developed by highly innovative teams, in support of image processing technologies.

PlugFest Participation and Hosting

Academic Plugfests: Recruiting students to support a process of competitive integration of off-the-shelf components in an online environment to stimulate defense and intelligence adoption of advanced commercial software development practices -- in partnership with the Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E). Plugfest 2013 Website

- High-Level Information Fusion of Cyber-Security Expert Knowledge and Experimental Data
  Costa, Paulo C.G., Atighetchi, Michael, Yu, Bo, Myers, David
  International Conference on Information Fusion, Cambridge, UK July 2018
- A Simulation-Based Air Mission Evaluation with Bayesian Threat Assessment for Opposing Forces (PDF)
  Costa, André N. and Dr. Paulo C. G. Costa In Disciplinary Convergence in Systems Engineering Research, pp.281-95. Springer, Cham, November 2017.
- PR-OWL - A Language for Defining Probabilistic Ontologies.
  Carvalho, Rommel, Laskey, Kathryn, and Costa, Paulo C.G.
  International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, August 1017
- An Extended Maritime Domain Awareness Probabilistic Ontology Derived from Human-aided Multi-Entity Bayesian Networks Learning (PDF)
  Park, Cheol Young; Laskey, Kathryn Blackmond; Costa, Paulo C.G. Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense, and Security (STIDS 2016) (Vol. 1788, pp. 28-36). George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA November 2016.
- PR-OWL Decision: Toward Reusable Ontology Language for Decision Making under Uncertainty (PDF)
  Matsumoto, Shou; Laskey, Kathryn Blackmond; Costa, Paulo C.G. Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense, and Security (STIDS 2016) (Vol. 1788, pp. 37-45) Fairfax, VA, USA: George Mason University, November 2016
- C2-Simulation Interoperability for Operational Hybrid Environments (PDF) Slides
  J. Mark Pullen, C4I & Cyber Center, GMU, Fairfax, VA;Lionel Khimeche, Direction générale de l'armement, France; and Bharat Patel, Senior Capability Advisor, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Fareham, UK
  NATO Modeling & Simulation Symposium 2016, Bucharest, Romania, October 2016
- C2-in a Complex Connected Battlespace (PDF)
  J. Mark Pullen, C4I & Cyber Center, GMU, Fairfax, VA;Lionel Khimeche, Direction générale de l'armement, France;Bharat Patel, Senior Capability Advisor, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Fareham, UKNATO Modeling & Simulation Symposium 2016, Bucharest, Romania, October 2016
- Uncertainty Modeling Process for Semantic Technology
  Carvalho RN, Laskey KB, Costa P. PeerJ Computer Science August 2016.
- Probabilistic Argument Maps for Intelligence Analysis: Completed Capabilities (PDF),
  Schrag, Robert; Wright, Edward; Kerr, Robert; Johnson, Robert; Ware, Bryan; McIntyre, Joan, Richev, Melonie; Laskey, Kathryn; Hoffman, Robert Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (Vol. 1876, pp. 16-21)Floris Bex, Floriana Grasso, Nancy Green (eds) Co-located with IJCAI 2016. New York, NY, USA, July 2016.
- Coalition Command and Control - Simulation Interoperation as a System of Systems (PDF)
  Dr. J. Mark Pullen, C4I & Cyber Center, GMU, Fairfax, VA and
  Ole Martin Mevassvik, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Norway
  IEEE International Conference on System of Systems Engineering, Norway, June 2016
- Automated Ontology Creation Using XML Schema Elements (PDF),
  Singapogu, Samuel, Dr. Paulo C.G. Costa and Dr. J. Mark Pullen of C4I & Cyber Center, GMU October 2015
-  Technical and Operational Issues in Combining MSDL and C-BML Standards for C2-Simulation Interoperation in MSG-085  (PDF)
  Dr. J. Mark Pullen and Douglas Corner, et al.
- Services to Support Experimentation for Operational Use of Simulations in Coalition Command and Control (PDF)
  Dr. J. Mark Pullen, et al.
- Pros and Cons for Teaching Courses in the Classroom and Online Simultaneously (PDF)
  Dr. J. Mark Pullen

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