{"product_id":"artificial-war","title":"Artificial War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e Artificial War (Hardcover, 784 pages) – World Scientific Publishing Company, 2004. Language: English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eMilitary conflicts, particularly land combat, possess the characteristics of complex adaptive systems: combat forces are composed of a large number of nonlinearly interacting parts and are organized in a dynamic command-and-control network; local action, which often appears disordered, self-organizes into long-range order; military conflicts, by their nature, proceed far from equilibrium; military forces adapt to a changing combat environment; and there is no master \"voice\" that dictates the actions of every soldier (i.e., battlefield action is decentralized). Nonetheless, most modern \"state of the art\" military simulations ignore the self-organizing properties of combat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book summarizes the results of a multiyear research effort aimed at exploring the applicability of complex adaptive systems theory to the study of warfare, and introduces a sophisticated multiagent-based simulation of combat called EINSTein. EINSTein, whose bottom-up, generative approach to modeling combat stands in stark contrast to the top-down or reductionist philosophy that still underlies most conventional military models, is designed to illustrate how many aspects of land combat may be understood as self-organized, emergent phenomena. Used worldwide by the military operations research community, EINSTein has pioneered the simulation of combat on a small to medium scale by using autonomous agents to model individual behaviors and personalities rather than hardware.\u003c\/p\u003e  \n\n                                         Editorial Reviews                   Review   .,.\" this book has much worthy of recommendation and it is certainly unique at the present time.\"                                           ","brand":"Ilachinski Andrew","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46071263232234,"sku":"9789812388346","price":18.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/5301\/6298\/files\/61Txo1ep0gL._SL1500.jpg?v=1781291664","url":"https:\/\/textbookme.store\/products\/artificial-war","provider":"TextbookMe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}