Combat entity-based modeling and simulation methodology for engagement level defense systems

Abstract

Many countries are promoting a revolution in military affairs (RMA) or a military reform plan (MRP) in preparation for future warfare. One of the concrete grounds driving such a plan and revolution is that the information technology provides unprecedented applications for the development of next-generation platforms or weapons, such as stealth fighters, guided weapons, or mobile countermeasures Since it requires tremendous time and cost to construct these combat platforms/weapons, performance analysis reflecting military requirements and tactical development for their effective fulfillment are consistently needed from the beginning of the construction. Modeling and simulation (M&S) is devised to take advantage of these opportunities and accompanying M&S techniques have matured to the point where they are useful. As with all M&S applications, the success of defense M&S relies on determining the exact target system to be modeled and understanding several challenges, all drawn from military experience, that are necessary for the M&S development.Our target system, in this dissertation, is an individual combat entity (e.g., a next-generation platform or weapon) for an engagement level combat simulation. Thus, we propose combat entity M&S methodology for engagement level defense systems. To achieve above requisites, this dissertation centers on four issues: 1) conceptual model design, 2) detailed model design, 3) model simulation, and 4) simulation experimentation. In detail, we, first, propose a two-dimensional (2-D) model partition method for conceptual modeling of the combat entity, which partitions it depending on the model scope horizontally and the level of detail vertically. The proposed method guarantees transparent simplification of the combat entity and facilitates flexible model composition when simulating in the centralized as well as the distributed environments. Second, we provide the detailed model design on the basis of the DEVS (Discrete event syste...