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The generic methodology for verification and validation applied to medium range anti-tank simulation training devices

Voogd, J.M. (author), Roza, M. (author)

The Dutch Ministry of Defense (NL-MoD) has recently acquired an update of its medium range anti tank (MRAT) missile system, called the GILL. The update to the SPIKE Long Range (LR) weapon system is accompanied with the acquisition of new simulation training devices (STDs). These devices are bought Commercial off the Shelf (COTS). The question...

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Hennes, D. (author), de Jong, S. (author), Tuyls, K. (author), Gal, Y. (author)

This article presents novel methods for representing and analyzing a special class of multiagent bargaining settings that feature multiple players, large action spaces, and a relationship among players' goals, tasks, and resources. We show how to reduce these interactions to a set of bilateral normal-form games in which the strategy space is...

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Trainen met gesimuleerde mensen: Effectief inzetten van gedragsmodellen voor militaire training

van den Bosch, K. (author), Bosse, T. (author), de Jong, S. (author)

Militaire missies vinden steeds vaker plaats in verstedelijkt gebied, in landen met minder bekende culturen en in regio’s met veel lokale groepen, die elk hun eigen belangen hebben. De hedendaagse militair moet complexe situaties snel kunnen analyseren en doorgronden. Een goede training in situatiebeoordeling, besluitvorming en communicatie is...

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Rome, E. (author), Langeslag, P.J.H. (author), Usov, A. (author)

Modelling and simulation is an important tool for Critical Infrastructure (CI) dependency analysis, for testing methods for risk reduction, and as well for the evaluation of past failures. Moreover, interaction of such simulations with external threat models, e.g., a river flood model, or economic models enable consequence analysis and thus may...

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Serious Gaming for Complex Decision Making

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Exploiting Modelling and Simulation in Support of Cyber Defence

Klaver, M.H.A. (author), Boltjes, B. (author), Croom-Jonson, S. (author), Jonat, F. (author), Çankaya, Y. (author)

The rapidly evolving environment of Cyber threats against the NATO Alliance has necessitated a renewed focus on the development of Cyber Defence policy and capabilities. The NATO Modelling and Simulation Group is looking for ways to leverage Modelling and Simulation experience in research, analysis and training to assist the Cyber Defence...

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A Survey on Procedural Modelling for Virtual Worlds

Smelik, R.M. (author), Tutenel, T. (author), Bidarra, R. (author), Benes, B. (author)

Procedural modelling deals with (semi-)automatic content generation by means of a program or procedure. Among other advantages, its data compression and the potential to generate a large variety of detailed content with reduced human intervention, have made procedural modelling attractive for creating virtual environments increasingly used in...

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Meeting the NATO M&S Interoperability Challenge

Huiskamp, W. (author), Voiculet, A. (author), Cayirci, E. (author), Lofstrand, B. (author), Patel, B. (author), Khimeche, L. (author), Heffner, K. (author), de Reus, N.M. (author), Igarza, J.L. (author), Voogd, J. (author), Roza, M. (author), Krarup-Hansen, N. (author)

The NATO Modelling & Simulation Master Plan (NMSMP) calls for the application of Modelling and Simulation (M&S) in areas that include, but are not limited to: Support to Operations, Capability Development, Mission Rehearsal, Training and Education, and Procurement. Common standards are essential enablers for simulation interoperability and re...

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Siegfried, R. (author), van den Berg, T.W. (author), Cramp, A.J. (author), Huiskamp, W. (author)

Modeling & Simulation as a Service (MSaaS) is a concept that potentially offers all kinds of possibilities to support M&S users and providers. For many reasons service-based approaches are considered to be very promising architectures for realizing next generation simulation environments. The combination of service-based approaches with ideas...

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Performance assessment is a key factor in designing distributed simulation environments that are fit-forpurpose and cost-effective. Simulations used for training applications should provide the required level of responsiveness and interactivity. Simulations used for analysis or decision support should execute as fast as possible to enable quick...

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The Geopolitics of Shale Gas: The Implications of the US' Shale Gas Revolution on Intrastate Stability within Traditional Oil- and Natural Gas-Exporting Countries in the EU Neighborhood

de Jong, S. (author), Auping, W. (author), Govers, J. (author), Peters, M.C.A.M. (author), Widdershoven, C.J.C.G. (author), Weterings, R.A.P.M. (author)

The US’ shale gas revolution could in the long term destabilize traditional oil- and gas exporters in the European Union (EU) neighborhood: A combination of substitution effects and greater energy efficiency, could put pressure on the price of oil, leading to fiscal difficulties in traditional hydrocarbon exporting countries.

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Predictive mapping of crime and anti-social behaviour is becoming more and more popular as a tool to support police and policy makers. Important ingredients of such models are often demographic and economic characteristics of the area. Since those are hard to influence, we propose to use the environment instead. In this paper, we present a model...

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Service orientation for the design of HLA federations

Cramp, A.J. (author), van den Berg, T.W. (author), Huiskamp, W. (author)

Service oriented modeling and simulation (M&S) is being pursued by many nations and organizations. Approaches being taken span from the provision of M&S tools and applications via -as-a-Service cloud computing technologies to the actual construction of M&S via service oriented techniques. Often these approaches propose that new technologies are...

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In Search of Interoperability Standards for Human Behaviour Representation

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There is a long history of research to create capabilities that address the need for human behaviour representations in training simulations and other M&S application domains. In training, human behaviour models have applications as synthetic teammates and adversaries, but can also be used as a representation of the state of the trainee and as...

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A Proposed Engineering Process and Prototype Toolset for Developing C2-to-Simulation Interoperability Solutions

Gautreau, B. (author), Khimeche, L. (author), de Reus, N.M. (author), Heffner, K. (author), Mevassvik, O.M. (author)

The Coalition Battle Management Language (C-BML) is an open standard being developed for the exchange of digitized military information among command and control (C2), simulation and autonomous systems by the Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO). As the first phase of the C-BML standard nears its release, the Phase 2...

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Verification and Validation of the Public Order Management Serious Game

Voogd, J. (author)

In urban operations, military commanders have to take into account the civilians present in the operation area. This is why Public Order Management (POM) is an important subject of their training. The organization of POM field training is challenging. It requires lots of humans to act as crowds. It is hard to make the training sufficiently...

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