Network Science is an emerging scientific disci-pline that views the world as a large collection of people, organizations, biological organisms, and machines connected to form large, diverse, com-plex, networks in a myriad of ways. However, basic science continues to lag engineering capabilities in the sense of enabling predictive models of behaviors of existing complex networks which comprise the operational environment encountered by Army commanders at all levels (e.g. interdependent social, cognitive, communication and information net-works).
Major sources of this inability to predict future state of complex, composed networks are the persistent barriers to sharing/analyzing sufficient information to accurately understand the current state of such networks. This short note discusses a novel approach to resolving one of these barriers to sharing information, establishing local trust among distributed, unfamiliar individuals, and outlines how such a result would enable sharing of medical infor-mation across security boundaries with trusted users and groups, including among international partners. Read More
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