Artificial War: Multiagent-based Simulation Of CombatMilitary conflicts, particularly land combat, possess the characteristics of complex adaptive systems: combat forces are composed of a large number of nonlinearly interacting parts and are organized in a dynamic command-and-control network; local action, which often appears disordered, self-organizes into long-range order; military conflicts, by their nature, proceed far from equilibrium; military forces adapt to a changing combat environment; and there is no master “voice” that dictates the actions of every soldier (i.e., battlefield action is decentralized). Nonetheless, most modern “state of the art” military simulations ignore the self-organizing properties of combat.This book summarizes the results of a multiyear research effort aimed at exploring the applicability of complex adaptive systems theory to the study of warfare, and introduces a sophisticated multiagent-based simulation of combat called EINSTein. EINSTein, whose bottom-up, generative approach to modeling combat stands in stark contrast to the top-down or reductionist philosophy that still underlies most conventional military models, is designed to illustrate how many aspects of land combat may be understood as self-organized, emergent phenomena. Used worldwide by the military operations research community, EINSTein has pioneered the simulation of combat on a small to medium scale by using autonomous agents to model individual behaviors and personalities rather than hardware. |
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Contents
| 1 | |
A Primer | 71 |
Eight Tiers of Applicability | 159 |
Mathematical Overview | 217 |
Methodology | 277 |
Sample EINSTeinSample Behavior | 433 |
Chapter 7 Breeding Agents | 501 |
Chapter 8 Concluding Remarks Speculations | 543 |
Appendix B EINSTein Homepage | 569 |
Appendix C EINSTein Development Tools | 573 |
Appendix D Installing EINSTein | 575 |
Appendix E A Concise Users Guide to EINSTein | 581 |
Appendix F Differences Between EINSTein Versions 10 and older and 11 and newer | 651 |
Appendix G EINSTeins Data Files | 661 |
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action selection agent-based and/or assigned attractor attrition basic battlefield blue agents blue flag blue forces button cellular automata center-of-mass chaos chaotic chromosome Color Plate combat command complex adaptive systems complex systems theory component consists default dialog display distance dynamical systems EINSTein emergent behaviors enemy agents enemy flag entropy environment equations example figure fitness landscape fractal dimension friendly agents genetic algorithm given agent global graph injured input data file interactions Intuitively logic minimal mission fitness move movement range nonlinear dynamics number of agents number of red option p-rule parameter values path patterns penalty function personality weight vector plot position red agents red and blue red force red's relative weight rules sample scenario Screenshot self-organized self-organized criticality sensor range simulation snapshots specific squads parameter step target terrain elements threshold number time-series total number user-defined versions 1.0 waypoint weapon weight values
Bibliographic information
| Title | Artificial War: Multiagent-based Simulation Of Combat |
| Author | Andrew Ilachinski |
| Publisher | World Scientific, 2004 |
| ISBN | 9814482757, 9789814482752 |
| Length | 784 pages |
| Subjects | › › Computers / Entertainment & Games Computers / Intelligence (AI) & Semantics History / Military / Wars & Conflicts (Other) |
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