TOWARD COMPUTER GENERATED ACTORS AS CYBERSPACE OPPOSING FORCES USED IN NETWORK CENTRIC WARFARE SIMULATIONS

摘要

The US military is in the midst of a sea-change in its philosophy, approach, and technologies used for warfare. The old days of massed formations, accurate but large weapons, and movement is being replaced by small formations (down to one person), small but extremely accurate weapons, and high speed movement all augmented by rapid, automated movement of information between and among all military components from the battlefield back to the logistics depot. For this future vision of warfare to be achieved and be effective there are a number of issues that must be addressed and solved in the real-world and in the world of simulation. In this paper, we will examine one of the issues that the impact of this switch in warfare paradigms will have on the world of simulation and focus on computer-generated actors (CGAs) and the new demands that will be placed upon them, especially in the area of information warfare and cyberspace opposing forces. The solutions to the new demands for CGAs will build upon much work performed before. These solutions must draw upon experience and results in the fields of human behavior modeling, modeling of adversarial decision making, adversary modeling, and several emerging technologies in order to correctly model the opposing information warfare forces. Given the importance of information flow to future combat operations, we believe that CGAs used to simulate attacks upon friendly information resources will be important, therefore in this paper, we discuss the development of cyberspace opposing forces (CW OPFOR). This paper is organized as follows. The first section contains an introduction. The second section contains a discussion of the foundation technologies that enable the CW OPFOR. Section Three contains a description of the methodology and approach we propose for development of the CW OPFOR. Section Four contains a description of the knowledge base format that we propose for the CW OPFOR. Section Five contains a summary and suggested research directions for this new type of CGA.