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Collective sensemaking and military coalitions

Collective sensemaking and military coalitions
Collective sensemaking and military coalitions
Sensemaking is a key capability for military coalitions, enabling both individuals and teams to make sense of conflicting, ambiguous and uncertain information. Many features of the military coalition environment are likely to exert an effect on sensemaking capabilities; however, at the present time, we have little understanding of the precise nature of these relationships. Computational modelling provides one means of improving our understanding in this area. By developing models that enable us to explore the effect of factors such as network topology, cognitive heterogeneity, miscommunication and inter-agent trust on the dynamics of both individual and collective sensemaking, we may be able to better understand how specific features of the coalition communication environment affect at least some aspects of the collective sensemaking process.
sensemaking, distributed cognition, social influence, network science, collective sensemaking, team sensemaking, military coalitions
1541-1672
50-56
Smart, Paul R.
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Sycara, Katia
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Smart, Paul R.
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Sycara, Katia
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Smart, Paul R. and Sycara, Katia (2013) Collective sensemaking and military coalitions. [in special issue: Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations] IEEE Intelligent Systems, 28 (1), 50-56.

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Sensemaking is a key capability for military coalitions, enabling both individuals and teams to make sense of conflicting, ambiguous and uncertain information. Many features of the military coalition environment are likely to exert an effect on sensemaking capabilities; however, at the present time, we have little understanding of the precise nature of these relationships. Computational modelling provides one means of improving our understanding in this area. By developing models that enable us to explore the effect of factors such as network topology, cognitive heterogeneity, miscommunication and inter-agent trust on the dynamics of both individual and collective sensemaking, we may be able to better understand how specific features of the coalition communication environment affect at least some aspects of the collective sensemaking process.

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Published date: 31 January 2013
Keywords: sensemaking, distributed cognition, social influence, network science, collective sensemaking, team sensemaking, military coalitions
Organisations: Web & Internet Science

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Local EPrints ID: 344328
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/344328
ISSN: 1541-1672
PURE UUID: 2c033cbe-c0de-4049-9827-6a36d256090b
ORCID for Paul R. Smart: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9989-5307

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Date deposited: 18 Oct 2012 07:46
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:15

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Author: Paul R. Smart ORCID iD
Author: Katia Sycara

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