A Reference Architecture for Human Behaviour Representations
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Lewis, Mark
Alexander, Thomas
Hiskamp, Wim
Blais, Curtis L.
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2019
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NATO/OTAN
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Currently it is not possible to easily represent the breadth of human, organizational and social behaviours observed in real life across the breadth of military simulation systems and Computer Generated Forces. Whether the need is for synthetic teammates, instructors or adversaries for individual training or the effect of cultural behaviours in more abstract strategic level simulations, improved representations and methods of integration are required This manifests itself as a trade-off between the number of entities that can be computed on a single platform and the realism of the observed behaviours.In 2009 NATO HFM-128 stated: “..the human aspect is still often represented in a mechanistic way, bearing little resemblance to observations, as if all humans always act the same way in a situation much as a machine would. In reality, human behaviour is not deterministic. Without proper representation of behaviour, and the reasons behind the behaviour, the validity of the model may be seriously flawed, making its performance and predictions questionable.” Previous research has highlighted the challenges faced in modelling human behaviour, highlighting the need for Human Behaviour simulation standards. A NATO Modelling and Simulation Group (NMSG) activity has recently developed the idea of a baseline Reference Architecture (RA) and interoperability standards for human behaviour modelling to facilitate the creation and integration of human behaviour representations into simulation. This paper presents the findings of that group and its initial human behaviour reference architecture model, and recommendations on how it can be applied to represent a more complete human behaviour model in a specific use case.
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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17 p.
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Huiskamp, Wim, and Curtis L. Blais. "A Reference Architecture for Human Behaviour Representations." NATO/OTAN STO-MP-MSG-159, (2018).
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.