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Intelligent Agents for Human Behavior Modeling as Support to Operations

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Goal of the present paper is providing support to operations planning and management in complex scenarios. The authors are mainly focused on South Asia region, which is subject of experimental analysis by running an Intelligent Agents—driven HLA Federation. Simulation of investments and operations over an asymmetric mission environment with several parties, insurgents, terrorists and dynamic social framework is the aim. The scenario has various degrees of freedom and M&S enables evaluation of human behavior evolution and socio-psychological aspects. The presented models include Computer Generated Forces (CGF) driven by Intelligent Agents (IAs) that represents not only units on the battlefield, but also people and interest groups (i.e. Middle Class, Nomads, Clans). The study is focused on Civil Military Co-operations (CIMIC) and Psychological Operations (PSYOPs). The simulation is based on specific architecture that involves various federates playing different roles. Verification, Validation and Accreditation (VV&A) has been applied along the whole life cycle of the research, in order to determine the correctness and effectiveness of the results. The paper proposes experimental results obtained during the dynamic test of the federations.

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The authors are very glad to thank EDA—European Defence Agency, the Italian MoD (Ministry of Defence) and French MoD that sponsored CAPRICORN Project. For further information please visit www.liophant.org/projects/capricorn.

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Bruzzone, A.G., Massei, M., Poggi, S., Bartolucci, C., Ferrando, A. (2015). Intelligent Agents for Human Behavior Modeling as Support to Operations. In: Obaidat, M., Koziel, S., Kacprzyk, J., Leifsson, L., Ören, T. (eds) Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 319. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11457-6_8

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