I n a 1998 article in Proceedings, Arthur Cebrowski and John Garstka described network-centric warfare as the “next revolution in military affairs,” comparable in magnitude to the revolution triggered by mass conscription during the Napoleonic era. The term network-centric operations refers to military operations enabled by networking the military force. Networking has multiple meanings, but in...

Google’s Android platform uses a fairly standard resource-centric permission model to protect resources such as the camera, GPS, and Internet connection. We claim that a much better permission model for developers and users would be application-centric, with a vocabulary that directly relates to application-level functionality, e.g., one permission could allow camera use, but only for barcode s...

the primary focus of the present study is to review organization analysis models from the standpoint of marketing and to propose an appropriate model for information centers and entities. a detailed literature review is made concerning marketing concepts, principles and services with respect to information organizations. the second stage deals with review and study of information entities, thei...

In recent years, a discussion on the relationship between Electronic Warfare (EW), Information Warfare (IW), Cyber Operations, Net-Centric Warfare, Command and Control, Information Operations (IO) and otherconstructs haveemerged. This paper proposes a threelayer model in an attemptto provide a new perspective on this discussion. Each layeris defined and the rolesand relationships between EW, IW...

This paper and associated presentation describes an approach for test and evaluation in a net-centric environment. A short term effort is planned in February to September 2004 to develop and apply appropriate measures of effectiveness (MOEs), metrics, and methods of data collection, analysis and evaluation for a representative test item’s performance within a networked system of systems environ...