Joint Combat System of Systems Modeling and Effectiveness Analysis Based on Complex Networks

Abstract

How to describe the difference among various combat networks and measure their effectiveness is an important problem in combat analysis. In this paper three basic network models are developed based on the theory of complex networks and a new method is put forward for measuring the network effect of combat SoS. Numerical comparisons of the three combat network models indicate that though integrated joint operations network has the highest networked effects in networked effectiveness and clustering coefficient, but when considering the Average Path Length index, it has the lowest effectiveness. The results also suggest that the degree distribution of integrated joint operations network is scale-free thus it has the highest survivability.