Personality and Cultural Modeling for Agent-Based Representation of a Terrorist Cell, Phase 1

Abstract

This report describes the research into the use of personality, cultural and socio-political modeling in order to provide a robust asymmetric opponent for Military Operation in Urban Terrain training. The report defines a plausible framework for modeling psychological and cultural influences and describes the development of rule sets to represent both the personality and cultural domains and demonstrate decision-making influences. The demonstration of collaboration among the rule sets is also shown. Results described in this report include the following: the NEO Personality Inventory Revised (NEO-PI-R) features make it a good basis for describing the behaviors of individuals whom the modeler does not have the luxury of testing; the cultural rule-set adequately supports the goals of exploring how two disparate influences on individual's decision-making might be provided to a simulation-based training exercise but it suffers from an insufficient basis in an excepted sociological model to allow for independent validation; and allowing rule-set collaboration only at the end of the chaining simplifies the analysis and is a therefore a logical first step in exploring collaboration.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA473184

Entities

People

  • C. M. Hogan
  • Nini La
  • Robert A. Van Houten

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Education
  • Factor Analysis
  • Families (Human)
  • Human Behavior
  • Inference Engines
  • Intelligent Agents
  • Inventory
  • Military Operations
  • Personality
  • Psychological Tests
  • Psychology
  • Reliability
  • Simulations
  • Social Psychology
  • Teamwork
  • Training

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  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Systems Analysis and Design