Computer Assisted Exercises and Training
A Reference Guide
Published on 16. July 2009
450 pages
978-0-470-49861-3 (ISBN)
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A comprehensive guide to computer assisted exercises
Readers can turn to this indispensable reference guide forcomprehensive and lucid coverage of the operational, technical, andorganizational knowledge needed to harness successful andconstructive computer assisted exercises (CAX) and war games. It isgeared also toward large civilian organizations that are looking toteach and test their strategies and procedures without the addedcost of manpower. Divided into two clear parts, the bookcovers:
* Fundamentals and Theory--conflict and warfare; probabilityand statistics; simulation; distributed simulation; andexperimentation and analysis
* Combat Modeling, Computer Assisted Exercises, andPractice--CAX architectures; CAX process; combat modeling; CAXsupport tools; communications/information system issues, technicalrisks, and risk miti-gation; and exercise centers andfacilities
Computer Assisted Exercises and Training: A Reference Guide isindispensable reading for research engineers, computer scientists,software engineers working with modeling and simulation, homelandsecurity specialists, staff in simulation training centers,military strategists and commanders, and many others. It alsoserves as a valuable textbook for modeling and simulation coursesat the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels.
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Erdal Çayirci, Chief CAX Support Branch, NATO JointWarfare Center, Norway, retired from the army as colonel in 2005.His research interests include military construction simulationsensor networks, mobile communications, and tacticalcommunications. He was an editor for IEEE Transactions on MobileComputing and the journals Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless Networks.
DuSan Marincic is Subject Matter Expert,NATO Joint Warfare Center, Norway. His areas of interest have beenthe dynamics of a global security environment, multivariateanalysis of societal security dimensions in the area of complexemergencies, and computer simulation modeling of peaceoperations.
Content
PREFACE.
ABOUT AUTHORS.
PART I FUNDAMENTALS AND THEORY.
1 Introduction.
1.1 Contemporary Security Environment.
1.2 Exercises.
1.3 Military Simulation.
1.4 Scope of the Book.
1.5 Structure of the Book.
1.6 Electronic Resources for the Book.
1.7 Review Questions.
2 Conflict and Warfare.
2.1 Paradigms of War.
2.2 Evolution of Warfare.
2.3 Operations.
2.4 Comprehensive Approach to Operations.
2.5 Review Questions.
3 Statistics and Probability.
3.1 Descriptive Statistics: Population, Sample, CentralTendency, and Dispersion.
3.2 Probability.
3.3 Random Variable.
3.4 Inferential Statistics.
3.5 Review Questions.
4 Simulation.
4.1 Pseudorandom Number Generation and Realization of RandomVariables.
4.2 Static Simulation.
4.3 Dynamic Simulation.
4.4 Phases in a Simulation.
4.5 Review Questions.
5 Distributed Simulation.
5.1 Distributed Interactive Simulation.
5.2 High-Level Architecture.
5.3 Base Object Model (BOM).
5.4 Review Questions.
6 Experimentation and Analysis.
6.1 Design of Experiment.
6.2 Execution of Experiments.
6.3 Data Analysis, Reporting, and Presentation.
6.4 Review Questions.
PART II COMBAT MODELING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED EXERCISES, ANDPRACTICE.
7 Computer-Assisted Exercise (CAX) Architectures.
7.1 Distributed Exercises and Distributed Simulation.
7.2 Multilevel and Multiresolution Exercises.
7.3 Cross-Level, Joint, and Combined Exercises.
7.4 Excon Structure.
7.5 Response Cells.
7.6 Training Audience.
7.7 Review Questions.
8 CAX PROCESS.
8.1 Exercise Specification.
8.2 Planning and Preparation.
8.3 Execution.
8.4 Analysis.
8.5 Review Questions.
9 Combat Modeling.
9.1 Terrain Modeling.
9.2 Attrition and Movement.
9.3 Challenges in the Quantification for Nonkinetic Warfare.
9.4 Automated Forces.
9.5 Challenges and Approaches in the Implementation.
9.6 Combat Model Data.
9.7 Verification and Validation of Combat Models.
9.8 Experimentation and Analysis of Operational Plans.
9.9 Review Questions.
10 Computer-Assisted Exercise Support Tools.
10.1 Military Constructive Simulations and Ancillary Tools.
10.2 Planning and Management Tools.
10.3 Mediation-Ware.
10.4 Review Questions.
11 Communications/Information System Issues, Technical Risks,and Risk Mitigation.
11.1 Hardware and Software Requirements.
11.2 Communications and QoS Requirements.
11.3 Security Issues and Challenges.
11.4 Game Crashes, Checkpoints, and Crash Recovery.
11.5 Shadow/Run Ahead Games.
11.6 Backups and Archives.
11.7 Networking Service Outages and Other Reasons forFailure.
11.8 Review Questions.
12 Exercise Centers and Facilities.
12.1 Organization of a Training/Exercise Center.
12.2 Design Principles for Training/Exercise CenterFacilities.
12.3 Review Question.
REFERENCES.
ACRONYMS.
INDEX.
