Personality and Cultural Modeling for Agent-Based Representation of a Terrorist Cell, Phase 1

摘要

This report describes the research into the use of personality, cultural and socio-political modeling in order to provide a robust asymmetric opponent for Military Operation in Urban Terrain training. The report defines a plausible framework for modeling psychological and cultural influences and describes the development of rule sets to represent both the personality and cultural domains and demonstrate decision-making influences. The demonstration of collaboration among the rule sets is also shown. Results described in this report include the following: the NEO Personality Inventory Revised (NEO-PI-R) features make it a good basis for describing the behaviors of individuals whom the modeler does not have the luxury of testing; the cultural rule-set adequately supports the goals of exploring how two disparate influences on individual's decision-making might be provided to a simulation-based training exercise but it suffers from an insufficient basis in an excepted sociological model to allow for independent validation; and allowing rule-set collaboration only at the end of the chaining simplifies the analysis and is a therefore a logical first step in exploring collaboration.