E Douglas Jensen

This page is currently focused on the article Time-utility function which also includes information about Utility accrual scheduling. E Douglas Jensen (talk) 17:05, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Deployed DoD Classified TUF/UA Paradigm Instances

The Time/Utility Function/Utility Accrual (TUF/UA) paradigm has received considerable attention in the academic research community (see the references). Those instantiations have varied system models and thus TUFs and UA algorithms. However, overall they cluster in a relatively small and simple region of the general space.

The notable exception has been most advanced cases that have been the subject of research performed at Carnegie-Mellon University's Computer Science Department (preceding its expansion to a School), and Virginia Tech's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in collaboration with the MITRE Corporation. From its inception at Honeywell Corporation's Systems and Research Center, and subsequently its development at CMU and VT, the application domain for those groups' research has been primarily military combat systems. Those systems have been DoD classified, although some unclassified notional examples have been published in the academic literature. A Principal Investigator [Jensen] for this group of researchers had an appropriate DoD security clearance and credentials and the application domain expertise. His responsibilities included the selection of specific research problems important to the domain and in need of the TUF/UF paradigm, conversion of those classified problems into unclassified ones for the (uncleared) rest of the researchers, and reification and transition of the research results back into the classified contexts. This focus of that group of TUF/UA researchers on classified military combat systems was driven by the PI's military-centric career focus, awareness of important needs not amenable to traditional real-time computing perspectives, and ability to acquire long-term multi-source funding for the research. As a consequence, the most complex applications and TUF/UA solutions have been instantiated in DoD classified systems, and are not public. (This is analogous to commercial product concepts and technologies being proprietary and thus not public.)

Those TUF/UA paradigm instantiations have been (usually very) successful in a variety of DoD classified systems, ranging from combat platforms to battle management. Just that fact is potentially valuable knowledge to some Wikipedia readers, but by definition DoD classified sources cannot be cited. Thus Wikipedia rules prohibit mentioning that fact.