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Research Topic Description, including Problem Statement:
Overview: Complex adaptive systems—from bacterial colonies to societies to the Earth’s ecosystem—are adaptive networks that operate as collective intelligences. However, our understanding of how multiple levels of networks coalesce to work as a cohesive entity is disparate and nascent. Developing a better understanding of how entities are able to specialize, develop interdependencies, and adapt has far-reaching consequences for understanding how populations, organizations, governments, and militaries operate, behave, and evolve.
Discussion: Research in this area should involve looking at approaches from multiple disciplines. For example, bacterial colonies represent simple organisms that coalesce and then adopt specialized functions that produce a coherent entity linked with interdependencies and can dissolve this cohesion as circumstances change. Anthropologists, archaeologists, and psychologists have observed the same specialization and cohesion in everything from families to the emergence and functioning of societies and civilization. Business and organizational specialists have researched ways to optimize how organizations specialize in tasks and how information flows maximize profits or efficiencies. Each entity develops a homeostasis in which they function and adapt. However, perturbations over time result in an entity’s approach losing its competitive advantage and requiring either adaption or dissolution. Researching the similarities and differences across disciplines, using broadly applicable abstractions like network science, and applying computation tools have the potential to provide generalizable approaches that improve the understanding of how entities function and how their function drives their behavior.
Problem Statement: The Intelligence Community (IC) needs scientifically rigorous approaches to:
The IC needs interdisciplinary research into the functioning of collective intelligence at multiple levels and then to test this understanding against real world dynamics in order to develop effective approaches to assess the collective intelligence of entities of interest.
Example Approaches:
Due the Interdisciplinary nature of this topic there is no shortage of approaches; however, some examples are:
Relevance to the Intelligence Community:
This research will provide approaches to more effectively understand the dynamics of complex systems and develop approaches to assess entity cohesiveness and entity behavior driven by its internal interdependencies. These approaches have the potential to help the IC more effectively understand the functioning and behavior of societies, organizations, and governments and then identify more effective policy interventions.
Key Words: Complex Systems, Adaptive Networks, Collective Intelligence, Multilevel Networks, Multiscale
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