A multi-agent architecture for modelling and simulation of small military unit combat in asymmetric warfare

A Novel Approach to Selecting Contractor in Agent-based Multi-sensor Battlefield Reconnaissance Simulation

“…Thus, according to formula (19), the 1st general reconnaissance platform agent is selected as the current contractor since the trust of the initiator on it is the maximum. (20) If it fails to perform this contract task, the trust of the initiator on it is updated as …”

“…A multi-agent system, as a collection of agents that work together in order to meet an in-community-shared goal [9][10][11][12][13], is designed to cope with a complex problem involving either distributed data, knowledge, or control by a certain interaction mechanism. Agent-based simulation [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23], as a useful tool to explore complex intelligent systems, is usually applied to describe real entities operation process by representing agents interaction behaviors.…”

Principles of Agent-Oriented Programming

“…Dealing with a growing number of variables and the continuous increase in the complexity of actions, there is a need for increased speed and quality of information processing. Within this context the armed forces fight today with a new perspective, using advanced technologies to improve their decision quality and, consequently, the chance of victory (Cil & Mala, 2010), (Xuan et al, 2001), (Bonabeau, 2002), (Barbuceanu & Fox, 1995), (Wijngaards et al, 2002). Following this new perspective, the current processes of decision making in combat use pre-processing technologies and information distribution that are based on symbols.…”

A modeling methodology for designing agents networks using timed hybrid Petri nets

“…Similar to the Petri net based approach, in these approaches there is an interesting theory to introduce analysis techniques in the networked agent systems. Works such as Coleri et al, 15 Negenborn et al, 16 and Cil and Mala 17 are completely focused on addressing a specific problem; the first one analyses energy consumption, the second one controls the flow between agents, and the third one is focused on a war situation in which is proposed a two-layer hybrid agent architecture and which has an integrated a simulation tool for combat in a asymmetric warfare.…”

“…17 The formalism presented by Ferber and Müller 4 introduces its own abstract machines. Yu and Cai, 5 Cena et al, 11 Liu,12 Ou-Yang and Winarjo, 13 and Kwon 14 use the formalism of Petri nets; several kinds of models are considered in these works: discrete, possibilistic, work-flow, and colored Petri nets.…”