Analysis And Study Of Combat Model Based On MAS

Warfare is a complex system, whose constituent elements including people or the combination of people and weapons can adapt to the environment of the warfare. This feature is the key knowledge to investigate the Warfare Problem, and it is also an important method to make preparations for the war in the peacetime, and an effective way to study the war cases as well.The traditional Lanchester's Equations, which are used to describe the combat problem as a deducible, determinate and gradual changing process of quantity and quality of strength, ignore the independent action abilities of the combat elements, together with the uncertain and complex consequences in the combat process. Fortunately, the Complex System Theory brings forward a new idea to solve the problem, and the Multi-Agent System (MAS) becomes an important methodology to apply the complex system theory in the combat problems.In recent years, MAS is proposed as a new tool for combat model construction and simulation. In the multiple agents system, the basic units in the war are modeled as the agent. Therefore, the macroscopical rules of the war can be revealed by the adaptive activities of the individual agent, by the relations between different individual agents and by the infections of the agent and the environment.This dissertation uses a MAS tool named EINSTein Combat Modeling System as a platform, and studies the problems as follows:(1) Warfare complexity. By comparing and analyzing the characteristics of the warfare and the complex system, we make the conclusion that warfare is a kind of complex system.(2) MAS-based Combat Model. The dissertation studies the basic idea, methodology, features, supporting technologies, and limitations of the EINSTein tool used in the MAS modeling.(3) Lanchester's equations in MAS. Traditional Lanchester's equations are used for studying the combat issues in a mathematical way. To overcome the limitations, we combine the Lanchester's equations with MAS-based combat model and validate it by simulation.(4) Fractal Model. Different from Lanchester's equations, the fractal model studies non-linear, irregular and mutation behaviors, which break the causality between strength and casualty, and stand out the advantage of the strength clustering.(5) Channel Combat Model. The dissertation simulate a scenario describing the channel combat in the mountainous regions, which have high altitude and low temperature. Different tactics and different fight formations are studied by using EINSTein. The optimized schemes of operations are concluded in the end. Although we could not simulate the command, control, optimization and culling operations in the war, the MAS-based modeling still takes its advantages and will be widely used in the future. The rules in the warfare are sure to be revealed more factually on the basis of intellectualized MAS-based modeling.