Mats Carlerby - A.K.A. Persson

Swedish Defence University · Science of Command & Control and Military Technology Division

The purpose of this article is to discuss and make conclusions from more than 15 years research within the field of C2 and what possible impact that has been accomplished. The point of departure is accordingly a paper presented just after the shift of the millennium where the possible impact of novel ideas and technologies for command and control (...

Background: Resulting from conflicts, millions of peoples have been forced to leave their countries of origin. In Sweden, the Employment Agency is responsible for making decisions of immigrants’ residence in municipalities and in co-operation with these allow the immigrants’ establishment in the society. Preventive interventions among migrants and...

Military theoretical considerations suggest that a networked command and control architecture will provide a more effective form of command and control under complex operations that demand a high tempo of action. This article presents an experimental study with the purpose to examine team performance under different conditions of command and contro...

FOI är en huvudsakligen uppdragsfi nansierad myndighet under Försvarsdepartementet. Kärnverksamheten är forskning, metod-och teknikutveckling till nytta för försvar och säkerhet. Organisationen har cirka 1000 anställda varav ungefär 800 är forskare. Detta gör organisationen till Sveriges största forskningsinstitut. FOI ger kunderna tillgång till le...

What is it that characterizes a system? Certainly as systems engineers this is a vital question to ask. While most will claim that it is a question of perspective (viewpoint and view), this does not help us in identifying key aspects that can lead to useful discipline independent semantics for systems. There have been several system experts that ha...

Recently, network organizations have been suggested as a solution for future crisis management and warfare. This will, however, have consequences for the development of decision support and critiquing systems. This paper suggests that there are special conditions that need to be taken into account when providing the means for decision-making in net...

New and envisioned technological means and abilities for exerting command and control have increased the interest of man-machine research in a military context. Although there are many current proposals for how new command and control systems should be designed, many of the proposed properties that are considered advantageous have never been tested...

The interest in using information systems for military command and emergency response has grown dramatically during the last decade. Consequently, high-level management has become concerned with efficient utilization of computer recourses to support their work. The Nature of Complex Dynamic Processes and Operations can be characterized as high-risk...

Most technology for command and control units is developed from top- down visions and models of an ideal team and technology fit. Such models seldom pay attention to social and historical practises. In Sweden there is a futuristic command and control post under development. The system is intended for civilian and military handling of crises. In spr...

This paper discusses methodological issues of micro-world research within the domain of dynamic decision-making. Using the C3Fire micro-world as an example, several studies are presented and discussed. It is concluded that there are several advantages of using micro-world simulations in the development of information systems, but also that there st...

One area currently being investigated and considered promising for meeting the requirements of information processing for future use within C2 systems is the growing field for visualisation of information. With this as a context, the scope of this paper is to present results from scanning some of the current efforts made within the area of VI. The...