Experimental Validation Of Metamodels For Intelligent Agents In Conflict

Abstract

As discussed in a previous paper, we are attempting to develop mathematical ‘metamodels’ of agent-based simulation models. These meta-models fall within the area of what is loosely referred to as complexity theory, and exploit the mathematical approaches which are being developed to gain understanding of natural non-linear systems (such as ecosystems of species, or the physics of spin systems). Such an approach is most likely to be relevant to future command and control structures such as Network Centric Warfare. In particular, Moffat discusses in detail the connection between the mathematics of complexity and the likely emergent behaviour of future command and control driven ‘Information Age’ conflict.