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Trust and obfuscation principles for quality of information in emerging pervasive environments
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Federated AI for building AI Solutions across Multiple Agencies
The different sets of regulations existing for differ-ent agencies within the
government make the task of creating AI enabled solutions in government
dif-ficult. Regulatory restrictions inhibit sharing of da-ta across different
agencies, which could be a significant impediment to training AI models. We
discuss the challenges that exist in environments where data cannot be freely
shared and assess tech-nologies which can be used to work around these
challenges. We present results on building AI models using the concept of
federated AI, which al-lows creation of models without moving the training data
around.Comment: Presented at AAAI FSS-18: Artificial Intelligence in Government and
Public Sector, Arlington, Virginia, US
Emergent Capabilities for Collaborative Teams in the Evolving Web Environment
This paper reports on our investigation of the latest advances for the Social Web, Web 2.0 and the Linked Data Web. These advances are discussed in terms of the latest capabilities that are available (or being made available) on the Web at the time of writing this paper. Such capabilities can be of significant benefit to teams, especially those comprised of multinational, geographically-dispersed team members. The specific context of coalition members in a rapidly formed diverse military context such as disaster relief or humanitarian aid is considered, where close working between non-government organisations and non-military teams will help to achieve results as quickly and efficiently as possible. The heterogeneity one finds in such teams, coupled with a lack of dedicated private network infrastructure, poses a number of challenges for collaboration, and the current paper represents an attempt to assess whether nascent Web-based capabilities can support such teams in terms of both their collaborative activities and their access to (and sharing of) information resources
Coalitions of things: supporting ISR tasks via Internet of Things approaches
In the wake of rapid maturing of Internet of Things (IoT) approaches and technologies in the commercial sector,
the IoT is increasingly seen as a key âdisruptiveâ technology in military environments. Future operational environments
are expected to be characterized by a lower proportion of human participants and a higher proportion of
autonomous and semi-autonomous devices. This view is reflected in both US âthird offsetâ and UK âinformation
ageâ thinking and is likely to have a profound effect on how multinational coalition operations are conducted
in the future. Much of the initial consideration of IoT adoption in the military domain has rightly focused
on security concerns, reflecting similar cautions in the early era of electronic commerce. As IoT approaches
mature, this initial technical focus is likely to shift to considerations of interactivity and policy. In this paper,
rather than considering the broader range of IoT applications in the military context, we focus on roles for IoT
concepts and devices in future intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) tasks, drawing on experience
in sensor-mission resourcing and human-computer collaboration (HCC) for ISR. We highlight the importance of
low training overheads in the adoption of IoT approaches, and the need to balance proactivity and interactivity
(push vs pull modes). As with sensing systems over the last decade, we emphasize that, to be valuable in ISR
tasks, IoT devices will need a degree of mission-awareness in addition to an ability to self-manage their limited
resources (power, memory, bandwidth, computation, etc). In coalition operations, the management and potential
sharing of IoT devices and systems among partners (e.g., in cross-coalition tactical-edge ISR teams) becomes a
key issue due heterogeneous factors such as language, policy, procedure and doctrine. Finally, we briefly outline a
platform that we have developed in order to experiment with human-IoT teaming on ISR tasks, in both physical
and virtual settings
A blockchain based architecture for asset management in coalition operations
To support dynamic communities of interests in coalition operations, new architectures for efficient sharing of ISR assets are needed. The use of blockchain technology in wired business environments, such as digital currency systems, offers an interesting solution by creating a way to maintain a distributed shared ledger without requiring a single trusted authority. In this paper, we discuss how a blockchain-based system can be modified to provide a solution for dynamic asset sharing amongst coalition members, enabling the creation of a logically centralized asset management system by a seamless policy-compliant federation of different coalition systems. We discuss the use of blockchain for three different types of assets in a coalition context, showing how blockchain can offer a suitable solution for sharing assets in those environments. We also discuss the limitations in the current implementations of blockchain which need to be overcome for the technology to become more effective in a decentralized tactical edge environment
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