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An Expanded Framework for Situation Control
There is an extensive body of literature on the topic of estimating situational states, in applications ranging from cyber-defense to military operations to traffic situations and autonomous cars. In the military/defense/intelligence literature, situation assessment seems to be the sine qua non for...
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description | There is an extensive body of literature on the topic of estimating situational states, in applications ranging from cyber-defense to military operations to traffic situations and autonomous cars. In the military/defense/intelligence literature, situation assessment seems to be the sine qua non for any research on surveillance and reconnaissance, command and control, and intelligence analysis. Virtually all of this work focuses on assessing the situation-at-the-moment; many if not most of the estimation techniques are based on Data and Information Fusion (DIF) approaches, with some recent schemes employing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) methods. But estimating and recognizing situational conditions is most often couched in a decision-making, action-taking context, implying that actions may be needed so that certain goal situations will be reached as a result of such actions, or at least that progress toward such goal states will be made. This context thus frames the estimation of situational states in the larger context of a control-loop, with a need to understand the temporal evolution of situational states, not just a snapshot at a given time. Estimating situational dynamics requires the important functions of situation recognition, situation prediction, and situation understanding that are also central to such an integrated estimation + action-taking architecture. The varied processes for all of these combined capabilities lie in a closed-loop “situation control” framework, where the core operations of a stochastic control process involve situation recognition—learning—prediction—situation “error” assessment—and action taking to move the situation to a goal state. We propose several additional functionalities for this closed-loop control process in relation to some prior work on this topic, to include remarks on the integration of control-theoretic principles. Expanded remarks are also made on the state of the art of the schemas and computational technologies for situation recognition, prediction and understanding, as well as the roles for human intelligence in this larger framework. |
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spelling | pubmed-93662102022-08-12 An Expanded Framework for Situation Control Llinas, James Malhotra, Raj Front Syst Neurosci Systems Neuroscience There is an extensive body of literature on the topic of estimating situational states, in applications ranging from cyber-defense to military operations to traffic situations and autonomous cars. In the military/defense/intelligence literature, situation assessment seems to be the sine qua non for any research on surveillance and reconnaissance, command and control, and intelligence analysis. Virtually all of this work focuses on assessing the situation-at-the-moment; many if not most of the estimation techniques are based on Data and Information Fusion (DIF) approaches, with some recent schemes employing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) methods. But estimating and recognizing situational conditions is most often couched in a decision-making, action-taking context, implying that actions may be needed so that certain goal situations will be reached as a result of such actions, or at least that progress toward such goal states will be made. This context thus frames the estimation of situational states in the larger context of a control-loop, with a need to understand the temporal evolution of situational states, not just a snapshot at a given time. Estimating situational dynamics requires the important functions of situation recognition, situation prediction, and situation understanding that are also central to such an integrated estimation + action-taking architecture. The varied processes for all of these combined capabilities lie in a closed-loop “situation control” framework, where the core operations of a stochastic control process involve situation recognition—learning—prediction—situation “error” assessment—and action taking to move the situation to a goal state. We propose several additional functionalities for this closed-loop control process in relation to some prior work on this topic, to include remarks on the integration of control-theoretic principles. Expanded remarks are also made on the state of the art of the schemas and computational technologies for situation recognition, prediction and understanding, as well as the roles for human intelligence in this larger framework. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-07-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9366210/ /pubmed/35965997 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2022.796100 Text en Copyright © 2022 Llinas and Malhotra. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Systems Neuroscience Llinas, James Malhotra, Raj An Expanded Framework for Situation Control |
title | An Expanded Framework for Situation Control |
title_full | An Expanded Framework for Situation Control |
title_fullStr | An Expanded Framework for Situation Control |
title_full_unstemmed | An Expanded Framework for Situation Control |
title_short | An Expanded Framework for Situation Control |
title_sort | expanded framework for situation control |
topic | Systems Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9366210/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35965997 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2022.796100 |
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