Modeling of Information Operations Effects: Technological Systems Example

Alexander Geyda,Igor Lysenko

doi:10.3390/fi11030062

Abstract

The article outlines conceptual and corresponding formal models of system functioning. Models provide means for estimation of information operation effects and the operational properties of systems and their functioning. Such systems are changed due to information operations. Examples of operational properties are efficiency, the effectiveness of system functioning, system capabilities and system potential. Operational properties are estimated based on functioning effects. Such effects of information operations are manifested through a system functioning under the conditions of a changing environment. An estimation of effects and operational properties is fulfilled analytically. It is made through plotting the dependences of the predicted values of effects and operational properties of information operations and corresponding IT usage against the variables and options of problems solved. To develop this type of model, the use of information operations during system functioning is analyzed through an example of a technological system. General concepts and principles of the modeling of information operations during the operation of such systems are defined. An exemplary modeling of the effects of technological information, and the related technological non-information operations of technological systems operation is provided. Based on concept models of information operations of technological systems, functioning set-theoretical models followed by functional models are introduced. An example of operational properties indicators estimation is considered. It is based on Architecture of Integrated Information Systems (ARIS) diagramming tools’ usage. Use cases of such indicators include choosing optimal information operations characteristics.

Highlights

As shown in [1], chains of information operations are required to create dynamic capabilities or potential in systems under conditions of environment changes
Environment changes generate this need for information operations of different types, which are performed as causal for non-information actions followed by chain of information actions
An environment change makes Information Technology (IT) usage necessary, which, in turn, causes sensing type information operations effects, and subsequently other information operation effects to produce dynamic capability effects on the changing border of a system and an environment. This kind of information operations and corresponding IT is always required for the dynamic capability or system potential effects to be realized and environment change is required to generate a need for such IT usage

Summary

Introduction

As shown in [1], chains of information operations are required to create dynamic capabilities or potential in systems under conditions of environment changes. Other examples of models and methods for the definition and estimation of such properties can be found in [10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28] This ability to perceive a system’s changing goals in its changing environment requires a system to check system and environment states which could be done with sensors or humans, to learn, to produce information about actions needed for further execution and to perform such actions in order to change the system and its actions, and to adapt and perceive changing goals in a changing environment.

General Concepts and Principles of Information Operations Usage

Software Prototypes for Estimation of Operational Property Indicators