Exploring effective methods for modeling a comprehensive approach to Political, Military, Economic, Social, Information, and Infrastructure (PMESII) / Human, Cultural, Social, and Behavorial (HSCB) community of interest (CoI)

The crisis response community recognizes the need for a Modeling and Simulation (M&S) approach that is based on a holistic understanding of the complex forces in society that comprise the political, economic, and socio/cultural environment. Comprehension resulting from accurate modeling of this domain could result in improved decision-making and command and control during crisis planning and assessment. The challenge is to build a virtual enterprise of networked area specialists and practitioners that collaborate by tools and technologies to assist organizations with the planning, analysis, preparation, and execution of PMESII activities. Discussed is an approach to establish a virtual Community of Interest (CoI) that both facilitates community interest and networks PMESII people, projects, programs, and tools. Also addressed is how mapping this information to a global visualization tool for shared use by the community can provide available information for both experimentation and real time crisis response.