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This chapter introduces the research of command and control; and the organization of this book. Command and control is the exercise of authority and direction by a commander over assigned forces to accomplish a mission. Though it is defined in the military field, the concept is applicable to the intelligence field and the public sector. Traditionally, command and control is qualitatively studied by mainly discussing the leadership role and responsibility. In the traditional works, few studies exist in the structure analysis because most of command and control structures were hierarchy. However, the recent trend shows much more evolution in the structures. Now, many organizations have networked structure that does not have clear roles and responsibilities. To understand these amorphous structures, the recent command and control studies utilize diverse quantitative approaches such as social network analysis; and modeling and simulation. This chapter introduces the evolution of the command and control study from the traditional works to the recent trends. Further, this chapter introduces the presented case studies in this book, and this chapter discusses where the case studies belong to.

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    We define agency as the capacity of individuals to act independently and make their own free choices. In the military, the individuals are soldiers who take orders from their commanders, so some may see that they do not have agency. However, the current trend of military doctrine emphasizes the self-motivated, the self-organizing, and the self-synchronized units; this trend facilitates soldiers to have agency to actively engage and cooperate in the situation in play.

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    Text analysis in the dynamic network analysis is used to capture the key elements in an organization from texts. For instance, a situation report can be analyzed by the text analysis to reproduce the organizational structure depicted on the report. Because this book is focused on modeling and simulating the structure, this identification stage of the command and control will not be introduced.

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  1. Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, KAIST, Daehak-ro 291 Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305-701, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Il-Chul Moon

  2. Institute for Software Research, International, SCS Carnegie Mellon University, Wean Hall 1323, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

    Kathleen M. Carley

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, KAIST Daehak-ro 291 Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305-701, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Tag Gon Kim

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Moon, IC., Carley, K.M., Kim, T.G. (2013). Introduction. In: Modeling and Simulating Command and Control. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5037-4_1

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