Irreducible Semi-Autonomous Adaptive Combat (ISAAC): An Artificial-Life Approach to Land Warfare.

Abstract

This study is a follow-on effort to a recently completed project, sponsored by the Commanding General, Marine Corps Combat Development Command, that assessed the general applicability of the new sciences to land warfare. "New Sciences" is a catch-all phrase that refers to the tools and methodologies used in nonlinear dynamics and complex systems theory to study physical systems that exhibit a "complicated dynamics." CNA is currently developing a multiagent-based simulation of notional combat called ISAAC (Irreducible Semi-Autonomous Adaptive Combat), a preliminary version of which is described in this report. ISAAC takes a bottom-up, synthesist approach to the modeling of combat, vice the more traditional top-down, or reductionist approach.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA362371

Entities

People

  • Andrew Ilachinski

Organizations

  • Center for Naval Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agent-Based Simulations
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Attrition
  • Complex Systems
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Differential Equations
  • Land Warfare
  • Multi-Agent Based Modeling
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Self Organizing Systems
  • Virtual Reality
  • Warfare
  • World Wide Web

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