Modeling adversarial intent for interactive simulation and gaming: the fused intent system

Eugene Santos Jr.; Bruce McQueary; Lee Krause

doi:10.1117/12.782203

11 April 2008 Modeling adversarial intent for interactive simulation and gaming: the fused intent system

Eugene Santos Jr., Bruce McQueary, Lee Krause

Proceedings Volume 6965, Modeling and Simulation for Military Operations III; 696503 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.782203
Event: SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, 2008, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Understanding the intent of today's enemy necessitates changes in intelligence collection, processing, and dissemination. Unlike cold war antagonists, today's enemies operate in small, agile, and distributed cells whose tactics do not map well to established doctrine. This has necessitated a proliferation of advanced sensor and intelligence gathering techniques at level 0 and level 1 of the Joint Directors of Laboratories fusion model. The challenge is in leveraging modeling and simulation to transform the vast amounts of level 0 and level 1 data into actionable intelligence at levels 2 and 3 that include adversarial intent. Currently, warfighters are flooded with information (facts/observables) regarding what the enemy is presently doing, but provided inadequate explanations of adversarial intent and they cannot simulate 'what-if' scenarios to increase their predictive situational awareness. The Fused Intent System (FIS) aims to address these deficiencies by providing an environment that answers 'what' the adversary is doing, 'why' they are doing it, and 'how' they will react to coalition actions. In this paper, we describe our approach to FIS which includes adversarial 'soft-factors' such as goals, rationale, and beliefs within a computational model that infers adversarial intent and allows the insertion of assumptions to be used in conjunction with current battlefield state to perform what-if analysis. Our approach combines ontological modeling for classification and Bayesian-based abductive reasoning for explanation and has broad applicability to the operational, training, and commercial gaming domains.

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Eugene Santos Jr., Bruce McQueary, and Lee Krause "Modeling adversarial intent for interactive simulation and gaming: the fused intent system", Proc. SPIE 6965, Modeling and Simulation for Military Operations III, 696503 (11 April 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.782203

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