Knowledge Elicitation to Prototype the Value of Information

From Wall Street to the streets of Baghdad, information drives action. Confounding this edict for the military is not only the unprecedented increase in the types and amount of information available, but the ability to separate the important information from the routine. Termed the value of information (VOI), the modern military commander and his staff require improved methodologies for assessing the applicability and relevance of information to a particular operation. This paper presents the approach used to elicit the knowledge necessary to value information for military analysis and enable the construction of a fuzzy-based prototype system for automating this valuation.