A range of threats in the areas of safety and security, from natural disasters to terrorism to conventional warfare, involve complex interactions that are beyond the scope and capabilities of traditional problem solving techniques. Applications of Information Systems to Homeland Security and Defense provides an overview of complex systems techniques, and presents both guidelines and specific instances of how they can be applied to security and defense applications. In today s uncertain times, these techniques can provide a breakthrough in the capability to model, plan and respond to critical events in modern society.
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Hussein A. Abbass is the directory of the Artificial Life and Adaptive Robotics Laboratory at the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at the Australian Defense Force Academy campus of the University of New South Wales. Dr. Abbass is a Senior Member of the IEEE and has more than 15 years experience in industry and academia and more than a hundred fully refereed papers in international journals and conferences. He teaches computational intelligence related subjects and his research focuses on multi-agent systems, data mining, and artificial life models with applications to defence, security and business.
Daryl Essam is a lecturer at the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at the Australian Defense Force Academy, campus of the University of New South Wales, where he teaches in multiple areas of computer science. Currently his research focuses on new algorithms for genetic programming, in particular the sub-fields of grammars, diversity, probabilistic approaches and multi-objective optimization.
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critical infrastructure networks, ofbelief systems, communicator frequency, fitness landscape analysis, adaptive combat, network farming, arrest threshold, communicator range, aggressive scenarios, red teaming, symmetry ratio, positioning technologies, node connectivity, network robustness, sympathetic country, artificial life approach, physics engine, ensemble approach, moral strategies, games technology, base classifiers, blue team, repair period, human social systems, average fitness Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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critical infrastructure networks, ofbelief systems, communicator frequency, fitness landscape analysis, adaptive combat, network farming, arrest threshold, communicator range, aggressive scenarios, red teaming, symmetry ratio, positioning technologies, node connectivity, network robustness, sympathetic country, artificial life approach, physics engine, ensemble approach, moral strategies, games technology, base classifiers, blue team, repair period, human social systems, average fitness Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Idea Group Inc, New York, Retrieved June, United States, International Conference, Australian Army, Department of Defense, Marine Corps, University of New South Wales, America's Army, Cambridge University Press, Controller Analyzer, New Zealand, Retrieved December, University of Wollongong, Project Albert, Retrieved January, Twin Towers, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Defence Force Academy, Australian Defense Force, Entertainment Software Association, International Journal, Proceedings of the First, Retrieved October New!
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- Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox by Gerd Gigerenzer on page 124
- Technology for the United States Navy and Marine Corps, 2000-2035 Becoming a 21st-Century Force: Volume 9: Modeling and Simulation (Technology for the ... Becoming a 21st-Century Force , Vol 9) (v. 9) by Committee on Technology for Future Naval Forces on page 30
- Enterprise Information Systems (v. 1) by Joaquim Filipe on page 15
- Personal Web Usage in the Workplace: A Guide to Effective Human Resources Management by Claire Simmers in Back Matter
- Classification and Regression Trees by Leo Breiman on page 120
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