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| - The Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance (NS CTA) is a collaborative research alliance funded by the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and focused on fundamental research on the critical scientific and technical challenges that emerge from the close interdependence of several genres of networks such as social/cognitive, information, and communications networks. The primary goal of the NS CTA is to deeply understand the underlying commonalities among these intertwined networks, and, by understanding, improve our ability to analyze, predict, design, and influence complex systems interweaving many kinds of networks. (en)
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| - The Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance (NS CTA) is a collaborative research alliance funded by the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and focused on fundamental research on the critical scientific and technical challenges that emerge from the close interdependence of several genres of networks such as social/cognitive, information, and communications networks. The primary goal of the NS CTA is to deeply understand the underlying commonalities among these intertwined networks, and, by understanding, improve our ability to analyze, predict, design, and influence complex systems interweaving many kinds of networks. This emerging research domain, termed network science,also has the potential to accelerate understanding of eachgenre of network by cross-fertilization of insights, theories,algorithms, and approaches and by expanding their studyinto the larger context of the multi-genre (or composite) network environmentswithin which each must act. The NS CTA is an alliance between ARL, other governmentresearchers, and a consortium of four research centers: anAcademic Research Center (ARC) focused on social/cognitivenetworks (the SCNARC), an ARC focused on informationnetworks (the INARC), an ARC focused on communicationsnetworks (the CNARC), and an Interdisciplinary Research Center(the IRC) focused on interdisciplinary research and technology transition. Overall, these centers include roughly one hundredPhD-level researchers from about 30 universities and industrialresearch labs, engaged with as many graduate students and interns.The Alliance unites research across organizations and researchdisciplines to address the critical technical challenges faced bythe Army in a world where all missions are embedded in anddepend upon many genres of networks. The expected impactof its transdisciplinary research includes greatly enhancedhuman performance for network-embedded missions andgreatly enhanced speed and precision for complex militaryoperations. Beyond this vital focus, its research is alsoexpected to accelerate the reach and depth of our understandingof the interwoven networks that so profoundly influence all ourlives. The Alliance conducts interdisciplinary research in networkscience and transitions the results of this fundamentalresearch to address the technical challenges of network-embeddedArmy operations. The NS CTA research program exploitsintellectual synergies across its disciplines by unitingfundamental and applied network science research in parallel.It drives the synergistic combination of these technical areasfor network-centric and network-enabling capabilities insupport of all missions required of today's military forces,including humanitarian support, peacekeeping, and combatoperations in any kind of terrain, but especially in complexand urban settings. It also supports and stimulates dual-useapplications of this research and resulting technology to benefitcommercial use. As a critical element of this program, the Alliance hascreated a network science research facility in Cambridge, MA,as well as shared distributed experimental resources throughoutthe Alliance. The NS CTA also serves the Army's technical needsthrough an education component, which acts to increase thepool of network science expertise in the Army and the nationwhile bringing greater awareness of Army technical challengesinto the academic and industrial network science research community.In association with the NS CTA research program, there isa separate technology transition component that provides acontractual vehicle for other organizations to fund work focusedon transitioning scientific and technical advances into morespecific applications. Research projects in the NS CTA are by design, highly collaborative and multi-disciplinary, whether based in one of the three academic research centers, the interdisciplinary research center, or one of the two cross-cutting research initiatives (CCRI). (en)
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