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Artificial war [electronic resource]

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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.

Title Artificial war [electronic resource] : multi-based simulation of combat / Andrew Ilachinski.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher River Edge, NJ : World Scientific Pub.
Creation Date 2004
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content 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
Extent 1 online resource (782 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010700133705171
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