FUNCTIONAL MODELING AND CONSTRAINT MANAGEMENT IN COMMAND AND CONTROL: TWO MICROWORLD STUDIES

Command and control settings are increasing in complexity, and are likely to continue to do so with the envisioned increase in communication and cooperation between interdependent networked units. This paper describes two microworld studies, with a focus on a method for the management of constraints in network-based command and control. The method enables the recognition, modeling, and analysis of constraints, combining goals-means task analysis, functional modeling, essential variables analysis, and generation of constraint-based recommendations for the design of tasks and interfaces. The first microworld study utilizes an emergency management task, the second an adversarial command and control task.