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Toward Culturally Informed Option Awareness for Influence Operations with S-CAT

by Murray, K. and Lowrance, J. and Sharpe, K. and Williams, D. and Gremban, K. and Holloman, K. and Speed, C. and Tynes, R

in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction (SBP11), vol. 6589, pp. 2-9,

Abstract

The Socio-Cultural Analysis Tool (S-CAT) is being developed to help decision makers better understand the plausible effects of actions taken in situations where the impact of culture is both significant and subtle. We describe S-CAT in the context of a hypothetical influence operation that serves as an illustrative use case. One of the many challenges in developing S-CAT involves providing transparency into the model. S-CAT does this by providing explanations of the analysis it provides. This paper describes how S-CAT can improve option-awareness during influence operations and discusses the explanation capabilities used by S-CAT to support transparency into the model.

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PRIME: A Predictive Model Development Environment The goal was to develop PRIME, an effects-based modelling tool, as a web application. PRIME supports rapid, collaborative development of forecasts of the effects of a planned set of DIME (diplomatic, informational, military, or economic) actions.

AIC Personnel

	Name	Title	E-mail
	Lowrance, John D	Program Director
	Murray, Kenneth S	Senior Computer Scientist