Asymmetric Threat Assessment Tool (ATAT)

Gary W. King; Matthew Schmill; Andrew Hannon; Paul Cohen

Asymmetric Threat Assessment Tool (ATAT)

Gary W. King, Matthew Schmill, Andrew Hannon, Paul Cohen

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Abstract

Planning for Effects Based Operations (EBO) requires understanding not just immediate effects - bomb damage and casualties - but also non-immediate secondary effects. This is difficult because secondary effects involve complex interactions of political, military, economic, social, infrastructure and information (PMESII) factors. Indeed, our experience in Bosnia, Somalia and Iraq implies that the psychological hearts-and-minds effects are often of greater importance in the long run than the primary military ones. We present the Asymmetric Threat Assessment Tool (ATAT), an agent based society simulator designed to explicitly model interacting causal chains on both physical and psychological levels. We discuss the use of a prototype of the tool in a Joint Forces Integrated Battlefield Command (IBC) experiment where it provided "what-if" analysis of situation dependent actions and reactions.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization - 14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2005
Pages	105-111
Number of pages	7
State	Published - 2005
Externally published	Yes
Event	14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2005 - Universal City, CA, United States Duration: May 16 2005 → May 19 2005

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Name	Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization - 14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2005

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Other	14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2005
Country/Territory	United States
City	Universal City, CA
Period	5/16/05 → 5/19/05

Keywords

Group and individual behavior
Intelligent agents
Knowledge acquisition/engineering
Synthetic environments

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Modeling and Simulation

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King, G. W., Schmill, M., Hannon, A., & Cohen, P. (2005). Asymmetric Threat Assessment Tool (ATAT). In Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization - 14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2005 (pp. 105-111). (Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization - 14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2005).

Asymmetric Threat Assessment Tool (ATAT). / King, Gary W.; Schmill, Matthew; Hannon, Andrew et al.
Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization - 14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2005. 2005. p. 105-111 (Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization - 14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2005).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

King, GW, Schmill, M, Hannon, A & Cohen, P 2005, Asymmetric Threat Assessment Tool (ATAT). in Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization - 14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2005. Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization - 14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2005, pp. 105-111, 14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2005, Universal City, CA, United States, 5/16/05.

King, Gary W. ; Schmill, Matthew ; Hannon, Andrew et al. / Asymmetric Threat Assessment Tool (ATAT). Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization - 14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2005. 2005. pp. 105-111 (Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization - 14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2005).

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