Modeling Macro-Cognitive Influence on Information Sharing between Joint Team Members

摘要

This paper examines the impact of the macro-cognitive processes, culture orientation and personality stereotype, on information sharing between members of military joint teams. The exploration extends to include the development of Human Behavior Representation (HBR) within agent-based models to assist in describing and understanding those macro-cognitive influential characteristics on information processing. Cebrowski (2005) asserted the key principle to successful transformation centers on human behavior requires quantitative as well as qualitative methods, investigating the social and behavioral domains more than technical ones (Garstka & Alberts, 2004). The initial approach to this project capitalizes on a substantial literature review of the work accomplished in the business and psychological domains. A review of this literature reveals that reliable and valid methods exist to explore these macro-cognitive processes (Garstka & Alberts, 2004). The methods established within the business and psychological communities provide the framework to explore the military reluctance to change and the possible negative impact differing orientations and bias have on the optimal interoperable state of the joint team. Additionally, advances in the Verification, Validation and Accreditation (VVA) process of the modeling and simulations community allow the development of input variables from reliable and valid human behavior data sets resulting in outputs more resemblant of realistic descriptions of behavior (Defense Modeling and Simulations & Office, 2005). To accomplish this subjective survey, objective measures and team effectiveness methods coupled with high performance computing agent-based simulations to assess and analyze the actual and simulated outcomes from experimentation are used.