Recent Developments in the MANA Agent-based Model
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McIntosh, Gregory C.
Galligan, David P.
Anderson, Mark A.
Lauren, Michael K.
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2006-11
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November 2006
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Agent-based models have recently gained in popularity for
modelling military operations. They purposefully leave out
detailed physical attributes of the military entities concerned
if this is not expected to have any bearing on the study at
hand. This allows scenarios to be run relatively fast, over
many excursions in order to discover unique situations or
tactics where friendly forces can achieve dominance over an
enemy. Another key feature of agent-based models is that,
although the one-to-one interaction between various agents
and their environment may be quite simple, the combined
effect of many agents interacting can lead to complicated
group dynamics and emergent behaviour. In this regard,
agent-based models have the potential to represent the more
chaotic and intangible aspects of military conflicts.
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from Scythe : Proceedings and Bulletin of the International Data Farming Community, Issue 1 Workshop 13
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