From situation awareness to intelligence: Increasing complexity in fusion models for sense-making

This paper presents several lessons learned from the ongoing work of a series of NATO Research Task Groups (IST-106, IST-132 and IST-165) which have focused on the changing data and information incorporating structured and unstructured human generated information with device-generated data needs for fusion in increasingly complex scenarios requiring interaction between devices, human-generated information and complex contextual backgrounds. We discuss the differing challenges facing the synergic information processing as scenario complexity grows.