Mitre Corporation

About: Mitre Corporation is a company organization based out in Bedford, Massachusetts, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Air traffic control & National Airspace System. The organization has 4884 authors who have published 6053 publications receiving 124808 citations. The organization is also known as: Mitre & MITRE.

Ordinal ranking methods for multicriterion decision making

Abstract: Given multiple criteria and multiple alternatives, the goal is to aggregate the criteria information and obtain an overall ranking of alternatives. An ordinal ranking method requires only that the rank order of the alternatives be known for each criterion. We compare and illustrate the ordinal ranking methods devised by Borda, Bernardo, Cook and Seiford, Kohler, and Arrow and Raynaud. We show whether each method places the Condorcet winner (if it exists) in first place, ranks the alternatives according to the Condorcet order (if it exists), and satisfies two principles of sequential independence. We also consider the application of these methods to cost and operational effectiveness analyses (COEAs). © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Direct maximization of average precision by hill-climbing, with a comparison to a maximum entropy approach

Abstract: We describe an algorithm for choosing term weights to maximize average precision. The algorithm performs successive exhaustive searches through single directions in weight space. It makes use of a novel technique for considering all possible values of average precision that arise in searching for a maximum in a given direction. We apply the algorithm and compare this algorithm to a maximum entropy approach.

OneSAF: A Product Line Approach to Simulation Development

Abstract: : One Semi-Automated Forces (OneSAF) is the United States (U.S.) Army's next generation simulation system being developed to provide an integral simulation service to the Advanced Concepts and Requirements (ACR), Training, Exercises, and Military Operations (TEMO), and Research, Development, and Acquisition (RDA) domains. With requirements ranging from closed-form analytical support to command level human in the loop training, OneSAF will be an HLA compliant entity level simulation. OneSAF will provide simulation of individual battlefield components such as soldiers, tanks, and helicopters through aggregate units, to the Brigade level, operating in either a completely automated mode or under the control of the training audience via their organic command and control systems or role players using a OneSAF Graphical User Interface (GUI). Simulation entities, units, behaviors, and the synthetic environment will be composable to provide the greatest flexibility to the user in rapidly meeting the scenario requirements for a simulation event. Composition will allow not only ordinary task organizations to be defined with doctrinally correct behaviors and ordinary equipment sensor combinations, but will also support new concepts in combining equipment and sensor pairs as well as new equipment and behavior combinations. These ambitious requirements force a new tactic in simulation development. This paper describes the innovative Product Line approach the U.S. Army's Simulation, Training and Instrumentation Command (STRICOM) is using to manage the OneSAF development. In doing so it details the combination of Military subject matter experts and organizations, processes, and technologies that went into the development of the OneSAF concept and the integrated repository that houses the OneSAF operational and technical requirements, government directed reuse requirements, and the Product Line Architecture Framework (PLAF).

Bagging and boosting a treebank parser

Abstract: Bagging and boosting, two effective machine learning techniques, are applied to natural language parsing. Experiments using these techniques with a trainable statistical parser are described. The best resulting system provides roughly as large of a gain in F-measure as doubling the corpus size. Error analysis of the result of the boosting technique reveals some inconsistent annotations in the Penn Treebank, suggesting a semi-automatic method for finding inconsistent treebank annotations.

Denial and Deception in Cyber Defense

Abstract: As attack techniques evolve, cybersystems must also evolve to provide the best continuous defense. Leveraging classical denial and deception techniques to understand the specifics of adversary attacks enables an organization to build an active, threat-based cyber defense. The Web extra at https://youtu.be/9g_HLNXiLto is a video that describes how in January 2012, MITRE performed a real-time, red team/blue team cyber-wargame experiment that presented the opportunity to blend cyber-warfare with traditional mission planning and execution, including denial and deception tradecraft.