IST Researchers to Provide Insight On Decision Making, Resource Distribution to NGOs Jan. 31, 2007

A team of IST researchers has been awarded an NSF grant aimed at helping non-governmental organizations (NGOs) involved in disaster relief improve their operations through better sharing of information and better coordination of decision-making processes. Full article at http://ist.psu.edu/newsevents/?pageID=736&HeadlineID=1668


Human-Agent Collaboration Using R-CAST Technology
New software can help people make better decisions in time-stressed situations Sunday, Jul 31, 2005

Human teams aided by a software system can make decisions more accurately and quickly in time-stressed situations than teams of just people, according to the Penn State researchers who developed the new software...Full article at http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/printerfriendlynews.php?newsid=28348

US fires up battlefield software - R-CAST decision-making software gives new meaning to mission critical
Robert Jaques, Thursday, Aug 4, 2005

A newly developed experimental software system can help humans make decisions more accurately and quickly in ultra stressful situations such as battlefields, US scientists have claimed...Full article at http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2140760/battle-decision-making-software


PennState LIVE Headlines
New software helps teams deal with information overload
Wednesday, June 4, 2003

University Park, Pa. -- Penn State researchers have developed new software that can help decision-making teams in combat situations or homeland security handle information overload by inferring teams' information needs and delivering relevant data from computer-generated reports. The agent software called CAST... Full article at http://live.psu.edu/index.php?sec=vs&story=3179


WIRED NEWS
Enough Already: Curbing Info Glut
Tuesday, June 10, 2003

"It was great to have access to so much info but your brain can become data-fatigued very quickly," said retired Marine Communications Specialist Thomas Castro, who served in the first Persian Gulf War....
But new open-source software developed by a team of university researchers may help soldiers and emergency workers avoid information overload and handle threats more efficiently.
CAST, which means Collaborative Agents for Simulating Teamwork, makes computers part of a military unit or team, according to Pennsylvania State University researcher John Yen, one of CAST's developers. ... Full article at http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,59170,00.html