Massive Multiplayer Online War Game Leveraging the Internet (MMOWGLI) Feasibility Study

摘要

The Massive Multiplayer Online Wargame Leveraging the Internet (MMOWGLI) project's overall vision is to increase the military's effectiveness through a novel approach for generating strategic analysis and tactical ideas. It seeks to apply distributed innovation and crowd-sourcing techniques to invent and evaluate the strategies which are needed in today's asymmetric and irregular warfare environment. As a step towards realizing this vision, the MMOWGLI pilot event is designed to explore the feasibility and usefulness of using an online wargame format to focus the expertise and energy of a large number of individuals towards military-relevant analysis. The pilot event should be developed and deployed with: (a) a web-based, light-weight interface and system infrastructure with minimal need for custom development, (b) an audience-focused game design which emphasizes participant engagement for the goal of brainstorming and idea generation, (c) an experimentation oriented event design.