Military Applications of Agent-Based Simulations

Abstract

There continues to be increasing interest from a broad range of disciplines in agent-based and artificial life simulations. This includes the Department of Defense--which uses simulations heavily in its decision making process. Indeed, military conflicts can have many attributes that are consistent with complex adaptive systems--such as many entities interacting with some degree of autonomy, each of which is continually making decisions to satisfy a variety of sometimes conflicting objectives. In this paper, we present three applications of agent-based simulations used to analyze military problems. The first uses the MANA model to explore the ability of the U.S. Army's network-based Future Force to perform with degraded communications. The second studies how unmanned surface vehicles can be used in force protection missions with the Pythagoras model. The last example examines the standard Army squad size with an integrated effort using MANA, Pythagoras, and the high-resolution simulation JANUS.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA491458

Entities

People

  • Susan M. Sanchez
  • Thomas M. Cioppa
  • Thomas W. Lucas

Organizations

  • United States Army Training and Doctrine Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Complex Adaptive Systems
  • Data Analysis
  • Doctrine
  • Experimental Design
  • Firing Rate
  • Force Protection
  • High Resolution
  • Military Applications
  • Military Operations
  • Military Science
  • Multiagent Systems
  • Operations Research
  • Simulations
  • Standards
  • Unmanned Surface Vehicles
  • Unmanned Vehicles
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs