Value-Driven Decision Theory: Application to Combat Simulations.

摘要

This report describes the application of value-driven decision theory to the modeling of command, control, and communications, (C3) in computerized combat simulations. Value-driven decision theory provides an unusually powerful method for representing C3 in combat simulations, in that the theory provides an explicit representation of the human decision processes that drive the simulation. Each decision element represented in a value-drive simulation has its own internal model of the world which is formed by the integration of perceptions received via sensor and command links into a predefined structural model of the relevant portions of the external world. Employing its internal model, each decision element has the capability for generating and projecting alternative courses of action, for associating values or measures of worth with each alternative, and for selecting a language, preferences can be conveyed among the decision elements of a command hierarchy or among different decision levels of a given decision element. This capability provides the decision elements the flexibility to override command from higher level elements should circumstances strongly favor the adoption of an alternative course of action.