Information Warfare and Organizational Decision-Making [Hardcover]

Alexander Kott (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1596930799 | ISBN-13: 978-1596930797 | Publication Date: December 2006

Unconventional warfare is now conventional, requiring the military to organize in new ways that can rapidly respond to unprecedented battlefield challenges. Cutting-edge computing is helping military planners create original organizational structures able to adapt to ever-changing strategies and tactics. The computational techniques in this book provide practical solutions for organizing and commanding military operations, gathering intelligence, deploying antiterrorism measures, and securing information. The book covers artificial intelligence, game and control theory, and cognitive modeling, offering new insight into military psychology and training. Strategists can develop robust organizations that withstand and mitigate attack. They also learn how to neutralize enemy command and control to gain tactical advantage.

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About the Author

Alexander Kott initiated and managed some of the most important research and development efforts focusing on computational approaches to adversarial reasoning. His affiliation with DARPA's large-scale research programs includes serving as the architect of the Joint Force Air Component Commander program and managing the Advanced ISR and the Mixed Initiative Control of Automa-teams programs. He has published more than 60 technical papers and edited and co-authored several books. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, where he researched applications of artificial intelligence to engineering design.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 273 pages
• Publisher: Artech House Publishers (December 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1596930799
• ISBN-13: 978-1596930797
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,301,445 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The new battlefield, September 7, 2007

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This review is from: Information Warfare and Organizational Decision-Making (Hardcover)

What this book does extremely well is to show the computational
problems underlying concrete examples in military and organizational
decision-making. The information warfare perspective is also
interesting because decision-making "bugs" are shown as ultimately the
main cause of failure and defeat. This book has several descriptive
chapters on organization and decision-making as well as theoretical
ones (e.g., social network theory, control theory, behavioral
psychology) and suggestions on possible implementations for
decision support systems in the information age.