The Cultural Geography Model: Evaluating the Impact of Tactical Operational Outcomes on a Civilian Population in an Irregular Warfare Environment

Autor:	Stephen Lieberman, Jonathan K. Alt, David Hudak, Leroy A. \\'Jack\\' Jackson
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	Structure (mathematical logic) education.field_of_study Engineering Management science business.industry Process (engineering) Population Bayesian network Sample (statistics) Cultural geography Homophily Irregular warfare Modeling and Simulation education business Engineering (miscellaneous)
Zdroj:	The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation: Applications, Methodology, Technology. 6:185-199
ISSN:	1557-380X 1548-5129
DOI:	10.1177/1548512909355000
Popis:	The civilian population has been described as ‘the center of gravity in irregular warfare’. Understanding the behavioral response of the civilian population in irregular warfare operations presents a major challenge area to the joint modeling and simulation community where there is a clear need for the development of models, methods, and tools to address civilian behavior response. This paper provides a conceptual and theoretical overview of the Cultural Geography (CG) model, a government-owned, open-source agent-based model designed to address the behavioral response of civilian populations in conflict environments. With an embedded case study, we describe the development of cognitive modules to represent the civilian population and their implementation as Bayesian belief networks (BBNs), the social structure module implemented using homophily, the process of adjudicating the effects of tactical level outcomes on a population segment within the model, and a sample case study analysis using a designed experiment.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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