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Algorithmic Behavior Forecasting

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Army
Contract: W31P4Q-10-C-0090
Agency Tracking Number: O092-HS3-6079
Amount: $99,612.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: OSD09-HS3
Solicitation Number: 2009.2
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2009
Award Year: 2010
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2010-02-23
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2010-07-30
Small Business Information
10303 Sweetwood Ave
Rockville, MD 20850
United States
DUNS: 626985399
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: Yes
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Alexander Lubbyansky
 Principal Investigator
 (517) 366-1194
 alexander_lubyansky@intelligentmode
Business Contact
 Farida Badalova
Title: President
Phone: (571) 236-5150
Email: farida_badalova@intelligentmodels.c
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

The success of United States'' military and Security-Stabilization-Transition-and-Reconstruction missions often hinges on the ability to understand and accurately predict the complex socio-cultural terrains of the theater of operations. The acquisition of mission-critical knowledge about the local population, conducted today by anthropological experts, is slow and prone to biases, resulting in inadequate knowledge pool, faulty recommendations, and inaccurate forecasts. To promote the rapid acquisition and effective use of the relevant socio-cultural knowledge, we propose to develop CASCADE (Computational Assessment of Socio-Cultural Action Dynamics and Events), which automates the processes of: (1) mission-critical knowledge discovery; (2) forecasting of populations’ potential responses to military-relevant events; and (3) discovery of effective means to shape populations’ responses and attitudes. CASCADE provides a unique computational framework for modeling socio-cultural terrains and dynamic behaviors and scenarios. It exploits the similarity of how behaviors are generated at the macro and micro levels to utilize the quantitative models of neural mechanisms to encode the higher-level individual and group behaviors.

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