A general theory of command and control

Author

Hitchins, D.K.

Author_Institution

City Univ., London, UK

fYear

1989

fDate

2-4 May 1989

Firstpage

111

Lastpage

126

Abstract

The paper sets out to produce a set of C² postulates, axioms and laws. The following proposed C² postulates and laws have been formulated: law of order/action rate equality, law of action/reporting rate equality, law of equipartition, law of infrastructure expansion, law of vertical data compression, law of decision rate invariance, law of lateral co-operation, law of survivability, postulate of decision scale invariance and postulate of command granularity. Additionally, equations have been produced which can be used to predict ideal values for: C² performance as a control mechanism, mean span of control, commander´s direct communication links, commander´s infrastructure links, mean hierarchy levels transversed per decision, mean hierarchy delay per decision, information content per C² information category, and communications capacity variation with information granularity

Keywords

command and control systems; C² information category; C² performance; C² postulates; action/reporting rate equality; axioms; command and control; command granularity; communications capacity variation; control mechanism; decision rate invariance; decision scale invariance; direct communication links; equipartition; information content; information granularity; infrastructure expansion; infrastructure links; lateral co-operation; laws; mean hierarchy delay per decision; mean hierarchy levels transversed per decision; mean span of control; order/action rate equality; survivability; vertical data compression;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Command, Control, Communications and Management Information Systems, 1989., Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bournemouth

Print_ISBN

0-85296-380-7

Type

conf

Filename

32716