Artificial war : multiagent-based simulation of combat /
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 in...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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River Edge, NJ :
World Scientific Pub.,
2004.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |
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. |
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Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxxiii, 747 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9789812388346 9812388346 1281872385 9781281872388 9786611872380 6611872388 9812562400 9789812562401 |