Redback is an intelligence search and discovery platform. Redback follows problem sets that involve multiple interacting intelligent agents, primarily but not exclusively people. Ideally, we would be able to detect patterns that allow us to use geospatial data to infer relationships, and relationships to predict geospatial behavior.
Features
- Identify key individuals and elite agents, locating hidden groups, estimating performance, identifying points of vulnerability and changes in behaviour, false information.hidden sub sctructures, organisation capabilities.
- Identify relationships among individuals and groups, characterizing the networks structure, comparing networks from other time periods in other locations or under different leadership.
- Consider agent change over time including birth, death, aging, decay, learning, promotion, intervention, fraud.
- Optimisation of an organisations structure for various outcomes including general high performance and adaptivety
Examples of specific analysis includes identifying the following:
- Individual most likely to be an emergent leader. Isolation of this person will be moderateyl crippling for a medium term
- Individual most likely to diffuse new information, know new information. Isolation of this person will be crippling for a short period of time
- Individual most likely to to connect otherwise disconnected groups. Isolation of this person might increase instability (eg Linguist)
- Individual who is most connected to other critical people. Isolation will likely have little effect.
- Isolation of this person will be crippling to the organisation.
- On average their are fewer paths by which information can get from any one person to any other person in this group compared to other groups
- On average it takes more steps for information to get from any person to any other person in this group than in others
- On average this group is less cohesive than other groups
- On average each person in this group is connected to fewer others than is typical for otgher groups
- This group has access to less information than other groups
- People in this group are closer to all others than is typical
- This group sends information to fewer others
- This group is less cohesive
- More components than other groups. ie more disconnected. You might consider it as multiple groups.
- People in this group are less constrained in their actions
- On average information will take more time to flow through this network.
Simulation supports analysts learning about possible changes in a system as it evolves naturally or in response to strategic or tactical interventions over time or udner certain impacts such as targetted misinformation or systematic data modification. Simulation makes it possible to generate artifical worlds and data sets that appropxiate observed data and cal fill in the gaps. Consider the military simulating several propoganda techniques, observing the performance of a network in the absence of influencial agents, leaders or resources. Accelerating learning or decay of a network. Giving access to certain network members to resources, locations etc.
The ability foa human to consider how a network might evolve over time and space is generally limited for humans to two dimension and for a limited period of time. Simulation allows an analyst to run non-linear systems for many time periods and make systematic forecasts of changes.
Unlike traditional economic models, redback simulations act in a boundendly rational fashion. Based on their mental models they emulate what other people might do. Actions performed by individual agents lead to changes in underlying networks that then effect what actions agent take in the future. Typically agents obtain information by interacting with other agents. Some of that information might be views about a third agent. Acquiring such information changes an agents knowledge network which in turn leads to changes in its social network.
Benefits
Human Capital Intelligence applied internally or throughout a market
Counter Terrorism
Law Enforcement
Fraud
Human Terrain
Mapping networks to understand cultural anthropology. Cultural anthropologists study cultural variation among humans, collect observations, usually through participant observation called fieldwork and examine the impact of global economic and political processes on local cultural realities.