1. QinetiQ in confidence © Copyright QinetiQ www.QinetiQ.com CCRP: Help in understanding IOCS: 22/23 October 2007

2. www.QinetiQ.com QinetiQ in confidence © Copyright QinetiQ 2 We need help in understanding: the environment Models, tools, visualisations and other approaches to help us understand the environments within which endeavours of interest will operate: –Understand the nature of the interactions between/among the entities –Understand linkages between/among effects in different domains –Understand and interpret model outputs –Understand possible implications of abstractions/aggregations –Instantiating models –Validating model Tools and approaches to help us characterise and deal with uncertainty and risk –Good characteristics of residual uncertainties –Motivating a paradigm change in thinking about prediction Tools and approaches to help us understand changes as they take place in real time

3. www.QinetiQ.com QinetiQ in confidence © Copyright QinetiQ 3 We need help in understanding: self Creating and maintaining –Learning organisations –Innovation –Trust and mistrust –Effective collaboration Understanding the dynamics of –Goal structures across the participants –Success and failure criteria –Perspectives of different actors –Causes and effects (influences) Understand how to work in the absence of trust

4. www.QinetiQ.com QinetiQ in confidence © Copyright QinetiQ 4 We need help in understanding: the curse of Dimensionality Data farming –C2 characteristics –Governance –Design of experiments Network science –Multiple Domain Comparative Analysis –Tool development Capability Test Methodology –Capability Evaluation Meta Model –Hybrid Simulation and Analysis (combinations of ABS, Discrete Event and Systems Dynamics) Develop Semantics and information Ontology to support Synchronicity –Make explicit assumptions of our parts –Use those to monitor for and deliver high value information –Continuously improve on the above

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