Behavioral Modeling and Simulation:

From Individuals to Societies

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Publication Year:2008

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Greg L. Zacharias, Jean MacMillan, and Susan B. Van Hemel, Editors, Committee on Organizational Modeling: From Individuals to Societies, National Research Council
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Today's military missions have shifted away from fighting nation states using conventional weapons toward combating insurgents and terrorist networks in a battlespace in which the attitudes and behaviors of civilian noncombatants may be the primary effects of military actions. To ...
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Front Matter	i-xviii
Executive Summary	1-10	(skim)
Part I: BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR ORGANIZATIONAL MODELS, 1 Introduction	11-22	(skim)
2 Military Missions and How IOS Models Can Help	23-88	(skim)
Part II: STATE OF THE ART IN ORGANIZATIONAL MODELING, Part II: State of the Art in Organizational Modeling	89-96	(skim)
3 Verbal Conceptual and Cultural Models	97-121	(skim)
4 Macro-Level Formal Models	122-148	(skim)
5 Micro-Level Formal Models	149-214	(skim)
6 Meso-Level Formal Models	215-260	(skim)
7 Games	261-270	(skim)
8 Common Challenges in IOS Modeling	271-328	(skim)
9 State of the Art with Respect to Military Needs	329-336	(skim)
Part III: ADDRESSING UNMET MODELING NEEDS, 10 Pitfalls, Lessons Learned, and Future Needs	337-355	(skim)
11 Recommendations for Military-Sponsored Modeling Research	356-370	(skim)
Appendix A: Acronyms and Abbreviations	371-380	(skim)
Appendix B: Exemplary Scenarios and Vignettes to Illustrate Potential Model Uses	381-388	(skim)
Appendix C: Candidate DIME/PMESII Modeling Paradigms	389-396	(skim)
Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff	397-404	(skim)

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Today's military missions have shifted away from fighting nation states using conventional weapons toward combating insurgents and terrorist networks in a battlespace in which the attitudes and behaviors of civilian noncombatants may be the primary effects of military actions. To support these new missions, the military services are increasingly interested in using models of the behavior of humans, as individuals and in groups of various kinds and sizes. Behavioral Modeling and Simulation reviews relevant individual, organizational, and societal (IOS) modeling research programs, evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of the programs and their methodologies, determines which have the greatest potential for military use, and provides guidance for the design of a research program to effectively foster the development of IOS models useful to the military. This book will be of interest to model developers, operational military users of the models and their managers, and government personnel making funding decisions regarding model development.

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