Research Catalog

Title

A new methodology for modeling national command level decisionmaking in war games and simulators / Paul K. Davis, Steven C. Bankes, James P. Kahan ; prepared for the Director of Net Assessment, Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Author

Davis, Paul K., 1943-

Publication

Santa Monica, CA. : Rand, [1986]

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Additional Authors

• Bankes, Steven C.
• Kahan, James P.
• United States. Department of Defense. Director of Net Assessment.
• Rand Corporation.

Description

xix, 117 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

This report describes and illustrates a methodology for modeling National Command Level (NCL) decisionmaking in large-scale crisis and conflict involving both superpowers {u2014} a methodology that progresses from abstract concepts about superpower objectives and strategy through the step-by-step procedures for building an operational computer program. Its two key components are defining an "image" of Soviet or U.S. decisionmaking, and moving from that imprecise image to a precise and coherent computer program. The report's sections outline the modeling approach; review the most important concepts underlying the approach; describe the systematic definition of alternative coherent images of the Soviet or U.S. NCL; describe building an operational computer program that is both transparent and able to explain its own decisions; and discuss initial experiences using prototype versions of the computer models.

Subject

• War games > Mathematical models
• War games > Simulation methods

Note

• "July 1986."
• "R-3290-NA."

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 113-117.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0833007351

LCCN

^^^86013863^

OCLC

• 13760469
• SCSB-10098313

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library