CANADIAN NATO MEETINGS

BigData and data deluge are contextual to CPSS complex dynamic environments. Information overload is a problem in every CPSS, and efforts to confront this problem have been ongoing in many countries, however more extensively and for significantly longer time in most NATO countries. Such efforts have been more intensive in the defence and security applications, in which the problem of dealing with an avalanche of heterogeneous and uncertain information is the most pressing. At the same time, it has been recognized that operational performance can be enhanced with innovative solutions allowing to analyze and "distill pertinent knowledge from available information and recommend approaches to meet specific goals throughout all phases of the decision loop, namely Observe, Orient, Decide and Act... The Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on the topic of " Meeting Security Challenges Through Data Analytics and Decision Support" to ascertain problems and explore technological solutions using..