Course of Action Simulation, Testing, Evaluation and Revision (COASTER)
Abstract
This effort developed simulation, visualization and evaluation technology for air campaign planning. A simple war game called Capture the Flag was used to build and evaluate military Courses of Action based on the developed technology. The Capture the Flag system comprises a simulator, a control architecture, and a planner. The system provides graphical user interfaces for users to observe and participate in war games. A variety of visualizations, instrumentation, and other software support the execution and analysis of experiments. Dynamic maps were developed to visualize the results of hundreds of Monte Carlo simulation trials. This visualization technique, referred to as probabilistic dynamic mapping, relates dynamical properties of a war game to the probability of winning the game. A method for unsupervised clustering of univariate, categorical time series was also developed. This method is referred to as Bayesian Clustering by Dynamics.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2004
- Accession Number
- ADA421427
Entities
People
- David Jensen
- Marc Atkin
- Paul R. Cohen
- Tim Oates
- Zachary Eyler-walker
Organizations
- University of Massachusetts Amherst