Value of Information 1 st year review. UCLA 2012 Kickoff VOI Kickoff ARO MURI on Value-centered Information Theory for Adaptive Learning, Inference, Tracking, and Exploitation Value of Information 1 st year review. UCLA 2012 Kickoff ARO MURI on Value-centered Information Theory for Adaptive Learning, Inference, Tracking, and Exploitation VOI 1 st year review. UCLA 2012 Thrust #3 Active Information Exploitation for Resource Management (Overview) Doug Cochran

Value of Information 1 st year review. UCLA 2012 Kickoff VOI Kickoff 1 st year review. UCLA 2012 Value of Information Kickoff VOI Thrust #3 – Information Exploitation Closed-loop Information Collection Fusion Inference Control Sensor Data Intelligence Data Human Input Data Search Agents Embedded Simulations “Hard” “Soft” Seeks higher levels of situational awareness: A virus is attacking the routers in our deployed sensor network … ultimately reaching as far as prognosis of adversarial intent. A terrorist attack on next week’s summit meeting is being organized

Value of Information 1 st year review. UCLA 2012 Kickoff VOI Kickoff !6 !5 !3 !1 !2 !4 !7 !8 VOI Assess and apply new VoI measures for resource-limited multistage inference with feedback Adversarial planning and new surrogate planning criteria Game theoretic framework. Surrogate planning criteria apply state-of- art classifier learning theory to multistage planning Develop information theory and geometry for planning in autonomous robotic and vision systems Coupled information planning unifies sensing, communication, and control Significant improvement of mission planning UAV and ground-based systems incorporating multiple sensing modalities Discover low complexity algorithms with guaranteed performance Will be applied toward navigation, target pursuit and weapon-target assignment Thrust #3 – Information Exploitation Research Objectives from Proposal

Value of Information 1 st year review. UCLA 2012 Kickoff VOI Kickoff !6 !5 !3 !1 !2 !4 !7 !8 VOI Thrust #3 – Information Exploitation Overview of Today’s Topics VoI for adversarial information structures (Emre Ertin) VoI metrics suited to scenarios involving adversarial action as well as uncertainty Sensor system design and control of sensing actions to maximize these metrics Distributed sensing and fusion with uncertainty and communication constraints (Jon How) Distributed and adaptive censoring-based inference scheme Information-geometric sensor management (Doug Cochran) Geodesic curves in a manifold of sensing configurations correspond to information-rich sensor trajectories for parameter estimation Posters Multistage adaptive estimation of sparse signals VoI-aware active task assignment Individual presenters will point out connections to other Thrusts