Artificial war : multi-based simulation of combat / Andrew Ilachinski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ilachinski, Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War--Mathematical models.

War.

War--Computer simulation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (782 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

River Edge, NJ : World Scientific Pub., 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Military conflicts, particularly land combat, possess thecharacteristics of complex adaptive systems: combat forces arecomposed of a large number of nonlinearly interacting parts and areorganized in a dynamic command-and-control network; local action,which often appears disordered, self-organizes into long-range order;military conflicts, by their nature, proceed far from equilibrium;military forces adapt to a changing combat environment; and there isno master ""voice"" that dictates the actions of every soldier (i.

Contents:

Artificial War: Multiagent-Based Simulation of Combat; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Nonlinear Dynamics, Deterministic Chaos and Complex Adaptive Systems: A Primer; Chapter 3 Nonlinearity, Complexity, and Warfare: Eight Tiers of Applicability; Chapter 4 EINSTein: Mathematical Overview; Chapter 5 EINSTein: Methodology; Chapter 6: Sample EINSTein:Sample Behavior; Chapter 7 Breeding Agents; Chapter 8 Concluding Remarks & Speculations; Appendix A Additional Resources; Appendix B EINSTein Homepage; Appendix C EINSTein Development Tools

Appendix D Installing EINSTeinAppendix E A Concise User's Guide to EINSTein; Appendix F Differences Between EINSTein Versions 1.0 (and older) and 1.1 (and newer); Appendix G EINSTein's Data Files; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611872380

9781281872388

1281872385

9789812562401

9812562400

OCLC:

61762303