Extending the User Interface for the Theater War Exercise
Abstract
The Theater War Exercise (TWX) is a wargaming simulation of airpower employment in a European theater conflict. TWX simulates a realistic five day conflict in which senior Air Force officers must make command decisions for airpower employment. The wargame serves as a learning tool to provide an environment in which the officers apply airpower employment concepts and principles of war taught in the classroom. The TWX system consists of the following subsystems: a) a user interface for the seminar students to retrieve and input data in the database; b) a controller interface which allows the game administrator to manage, monitor, and control seminar databases; c) land and air battle simulations which uses the data input by students and determines conflict results. The current TWX system was the result of previous thesis efforts which re-hosted TWX to a microcomputer environment and developed a flexible user interface. Both efforts were performed independently using a common commercial relational database management system. The completed works were to be combined into an integrated system. The goal of this thesis was to complete the integration of the previous efforts and extend the capabilities of TWX to improve its effectiveness as a learning tool. Theses.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1988
- Accession Number
- ADA202726
Entities
People
- Kenneth R. Wilcox
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology