Aggregative Contingent Estimation (ACE)
The goal of the ACE Program is to dramatically enhance the accuracy, precision, and timeliness of intelligence forecasts for a broad range of event types, through the development of advanced techniques that elicit, weight, and combine the judgments of many intelligence analysts. The ACE Program seeks technical innovations in the following areas: (a) efficient elicitation of probabilistic judgments, including conditional probabilities for contingent events; (b) mathematical aggregation of judgments by many individuals, based on factors that may include: past performance, expertise, cognitive style, metaknowledge, and other attributes predictive of accuracy; and (c) effective representation of aggregated probabilistic forecasts and their distributions. The ACE Program will build upon technical achievements of past research and on state-of-the-art systems used today for generating probabilistic forecasts from widely-dispersed experts. The program will involve empirical testing of forecasting accuracy against real events.
Performers (Prime Contractors)
Applied Research Associates, Inc.; Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.; George Mason University; Jacobs Strategic Solutions Group, Inc.; University of California, Berkeley
Related Program(s)
Research Area(s)
- Forecasting
- Human judgment
- Machine learning
- Logic & critical thinking
Related Publications
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