{"product_id":"artificial-war-9789812388346","title":"Artificial War","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ilachinski Andrew\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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, \u003cem\u003egenerative\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eself-organized, emergent phenomena\u003c\/em\u003e. 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 \u003cem\u003eindividual behaviors and personalities\u003c\/em\u003e rather than hardware.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World Scientific Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47613788946583,"sku":"9789812388346","price":21366.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789812388346.webp?v=1775087899","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/artificial-war-9789812388346","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}