The Rand Strategy Assessment Center: System PerspectiveThe Rand Strategy Assessment Center (RSAC) is a highly ambitious, multiyear research program to develop a system and methodology that combine the systematic reproducibility of analytic modeling/simulation with the behavioral richness of rule-based artificial intelligence technology. The system combines an adaptive simulation model of precombat and combat operations with three rule-based artificial intelligence agents that represent Red, Blue, and third-country behavior. The adaptive simulation model, called the Force Agent, simulates ground, air, and naval warfare in both conventional and nuclear settings on a theaterwide or global basis. The two superpower agents, Red Agent and Blue Agent, utilize wakeup rules to examine the world situation. Third-country behavior is represented by another rule-based agent--Scenario Agent. This paper examines the relationships among the four agents from the system interface, database management, and system control perspectives. The paper also discusses how the RSAC system can be used to support both automated and interactive war games. |
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automated agents automated war game Blue Agent Blue wakeup rules branch 1-2 look-ahead contextual richness Data Dictionary Data Editor application data items difference equations exercise clock Force Agent examines goes to sleep human players human teams issue orders major agents military assets Monitor passes multiscenario analysis NCL wakeup rule Node 2 rules operations plan polling sequence precombat and combat Rand Strategy Assessment real opponent Red Agent Red and Blue Red plan regains control Restore WSDS Return to node RSAC System Data RSAC System Interfaces rule 5 fires rule writer rule-based agents rule-based artificial intelligence rule-based language rules to determine rules to fire Scenario Agent Scenario wakeup rules software module Strategy Assessment Center System Data Paths SYSTEM INTERFACE COMPLEXITIES System Monitor systematic reproducibility third-country actions third-country behavior try branch 1-5 Try path unfolding conflict unfolding world situation wakeup rule fires wakeup rules Scenario wishes to awaken World Situation Dataset