SLIDE 1 ROGUEWOLF
SmartCities: Anticipating Agents of Change
Adam Amos-Binks Colleen Stacy Lucia Titus Kathleen Vogel Lori Wachter November 2, 2016
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Outline
Motivation: SmartCities + Anticipatory thinking Approach Background: SmartCities Anticipatory thinking Intentional planning Future oriented SATs Case Study: SmartCities Agents Summary
SLIDE 3 SmartCities
IoT - $4.6 Trillion value-at-stake for public sector1 Cities will generate 63% of total value-at-stake City infrastructure transformed through IoT
1 - J Bradley, C Reberger, A Dixit, and V Gupta. 2013. “Internet of Everything: A $4.6 Trillion Public-Sector Opportunity.” Cisco, no. 23: 1–17.
SLIDE 4 Anticipatory Thinking (AT)
Deliberately thinking about the future2
2 - Klein, G., D. Snowden, and C. L. Pin. 2011. “nticipatory ThinkingA.” KL Mosier, & UM Fischer, Informed by Knowledge (2011)
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Approach
Support Anticipatory Thinking (trajectory tracking) with Artificial Intelligence (intentional planning) and structured analytic techniques (AFA + backcasting) to produce Anticipatory Intelligence for an emerging use case (SmartCities)
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Background
SLIDE 7 Smart Cities
- Interconnected power grids reducing power waste
- Smarter transportation resulting in increased traffic
management
- Smarter infrastructures that reduce hazards and
increase efficiency But also means:
- Expanded attack surface for malicious actors
- Cyber vulnerabilities resulting in physical consequences
SLIDE 8 Smart Cities
○ Ukraine Power Grid Hack: Cyber Used in Warfare (Dec. 2015) ○ OVH WebCam Attack: 1Tbps DDoS (Sept. 2016) ○ Dyn DDoS: IoT->DNS Attack (Oct. 2016)
- Ideal for AT as it’s coming, still time to have an impact!
- What entities will influence the value at stake?
SLIDE 9 Anticipatory Thinking
- Different from prediction, relies on expertise
- Generate a view of the future
- Identified forms:
○ Pattern Matching ○ Convergent Thinking ○ Trajectory Tracking:
“Narrative...is of particular use in trajectory tracking to understand the possible moves of other actors in the decision space”
2 - Klein, G., D. Snowden, and C. L. Pin. 2011. “Anticipatory Thinking.” KL Mosier, & UM Fischer, Informed by Knowledge (2011)
SLIDE 10 Anticipatory Thinking
○ Actors actions influence our decision space ○ Does not scale, hard to incorporate new actors
SLIDE 11 Artificial Intelligence
Thinking Humanly Thinking Rationally Acting Humanly Acting Rationally
- Russell and Norvig’s AI taxonomy
SLIDE 12 Artificial Intelligence
- Automated planning: Industrial problems
- Plans: Theorized to represent plots3
○ Lead to intentional planning
3 - Schank, R, Abelson, R 1977. “Scripts, plans, goals and understanding: An inquiry into human knowledge structures.”
SLIDE 13 Intentional Planning
○ Character actions are believable, goal-oriented ○ Motivated when goals are not the current state
○ Consists of intentional paths ○ Character goals conflict + collaborate
4 - Riedl, M. Young, R. M. 2010. “Narrative Planning: Balancing Plot and Character” Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
SLIDE 14 Intentional Planning
- Need library of intentional paths!
SLIDE 15 Future-oriented SATs
○ Mechanisms to guide analysts to think about a problem.
○ Externalize and decompose thinking ○ Help analyst mitigate cognitive limitations ○ Enable peer review
SLIDE 16 Future-oriented SATs
- Alternative Futures Analysis
○ Identified alternative trajectories ○ Based on critical uncertainties ○ Inform and illuminate decisions, plans and actions today
○ Scenario analysis ○ Desirable futures ○ Plot a point in time, work backward to present
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Case Study
Knowledge Engineering
SLIDE 18 Alternative Futures Analysis
Security of the Internet Clockwork Orange Shangri La Government Involvement Independent Leviathan
Corporate Bliss
(corporate dominance with little risk)
Nation State Security
(increasing regulatory control)
How might the world of the Internet evolve?
Bottom line uncertainty
(hackers have leverage )
Regulations without bite
(government regulates to no avail)
5 - Healey, Jason, and Hughes Barry. 2015. “Risk Nexus: Overcome by Cyber Risks? Economic Benefits and Costs of Alternate Cyber Futures.” The Atlantic Group.
SLIDE 19 Internet Evolution
Axes:
○ Shangri La - Clockwork Orange
○ Independent - Leviathan
SLIDE 20 Industry Sector Actors
Sectors:
- Electricity
- Water
- Transportation
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Strategic Plans
Strategic plans Intentional plans
Corporate strategies (e.g. Apple, Duke Energy, Toyota) Government future vision policy docs (e.g. Raleigh 2030) NGO/NPO strategies (e.g. WRF) Non-state actor strategies (e.g. ISIS 2020)
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Intentional Paths
Actor: Water Research Foundation (NGO) Sector: Water Goal: Shangri-La (H), Leviathan (H)
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Intentional Paths
Actor: ISIS (Militant) Sector: Transportation Goal: Clockwork Orange (H), Leviathan (H)
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Intentional Paths
Actor: Government Sector: Transportation Goal: Shangri-La (M), Independent (L)
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Insights (Cooperation)
Water Research Foundation & Government, water Leviathan
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Insights (Conflict)
ISIS vs Government, Transportation
SLIDE 27 Use Case
- Hand crafted knowledge engineering
○ SmartCities actors (sectors from DHS) ○ SATs (AFA, backcasting) ○ Strategic plans → Intentional paths ○ Trajectory tracking (conflicts, collaboration)
SLIDE 28 Summary
- Trajectory tracking w/ intentional planning
- SmartCity knowledge engineering using SATs
- Strategic plans → intentional paths
SLIDE 29 Next Steps
DO7
- OpenKE: automate strategic→intentional paths
- Input for trajectory tracking in serious game
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Discussion
Questions? Email: {aaamosbi, cstacy, lltitus, kmvogel, lawachte}@ncsu.edu