SWIRL: Simulating Warfare in the ROSS Language.

Abstract

SWIRL, a program for simulating military air battles, has evolved over the last two years as part of Rand's knowledge-based simulation research. This Note serves three purposes. First, it is a user's guide for those wishing to run SWIRL, and to some extent modify its behaviors. Second, the paper provides an extensive example of a simulator written in the ROSS language for those wishing to examine how one might design and build a simulator in ROSS. And third, at a more general level, the Note focuses on some important techniques for constructing simulations in an object-oriented programming environment. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA121028

Entities

People

  • David L McArthur
  • Eric Best
  • Philip Klahr
  • Sanjai Narain

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Applied Computer Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Combat Simulations
  • Command And Control
  • Command Centers
  • Computations
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Graphics
  • Hierarchies
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Programming Languages
  • Simulators
  • United States

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