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Deterministic latency injection middleware for preventing autonomous escalation in multi-domain command architectures. 5-state Circuit Breaker, D(A, tier, domain) delay function, and Keep-Alive protocol.

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main 1 file · Mar 12, 2026
Open Live
flame-simulation.html FLAME v5.11 Flash War latency architecture Mar 12, 2026
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  1<!DOCTYPE html>
  2<html lang="en">
  3<head>
  4<title>FLAME v5.11</title>
  5
  6/* FLAME: Flash War Latency Architecture
  7 * for Multi-domain Escalation Control
  8 * Author: Burak Oktenli
  9 * Georgetown University
 10 * MPS Applied Intelligence
 11 */
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README.md
Positioning against prior work

Deliberate delay as a safety mechanism is not a new idea in itself: rate limiting, two-person rules, arming delays and mandatory hold intervals are long-established in safety-critical and weapons engineering, and supervisory architectures in the Simplex family have used timing constraints since the early 2000s. What this repository specifies is narrower, namely deliberation windows whose length is a computed function of assessed escalation risk rather than a fixed constant, applied to the authority level of an autonomous engagement loop. Readers assessing novelty should treat it as a parameterisation of an established safety pattern rather than a new class of mechanism.

FLAME: Flash War Latency Architecture for Multi-domain Escalation Control

FLAME implements Strategic Latency as a formal engineered system. It introduces mandatory deliberation windows calibrated by escalation risk into autonomous engagement loops, preventing AI-driven conflict escalation before human awareness (Flash War).

Patent Status

U.S. Provisional Application No. 64/005,607.
Author: Burak Oktenli
Affiliation: Georgetown University
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19015618
License: CC-BY-4.0
Status: Active development, interactive simulation live.

Key Features

  • Latency Injection Engine (LIE) middleware
  • Dynamic Delay Function D(A, tier, domain)
  • 5-state Circuit Breaker State Machine (NOMINAL → CAUTION → HOLD → FREEZE → LOCKOUT)
  • Cryptographically signed state transitions
  • Keep-Alive heartbeat protocol with safe-mode defaults
  • Domain × Tier risk heatmap
  • Physical interlock reset verification
  • Audit log export (JSON)
  • Session export and import

Technical Specifications

  • Language: HTML, JavaScript, CSS (single-file architecture)
  • Dependencies: None (zero external libraries)
  • Runtime: Browser-based, client-side only
  • Lines of code: 3,679

Author

Burak Oktenli
Georgetown University, M.P.S. Applied Intelligence (in progress)
ORCID: 0009-0001-8573-1667
Contact: info@burakoktenli.com

License

Copyright © 2026 Burak Oktenli · Georgetown University M.P.S. Applied Intelligence (in progress) · ORCID 0009-0001-8573-1667 · Washington, DC · CC BY 4.0