An approach to human behavior modeling in an air force simulation

This paper presents a multi-level approach to incorporating more realistic human behavior models into military simulation environments. The air force is incorporating different levels of intelligent agents within the enhanced air-to-air air-to-ground linked environment simulation (EAAGLES) to represent the human decision making processes required in military simulations. This provides user´s the ability to determine at what level of fidelity they need to represent human behavior to achieve their study objectives. EAAGLES is currently incorporating two mental models - situational assessment model for pilot in the loop evaluation (SAMPLE) and Soar. This paper presented an introduction to these mental models and discussed how they can be used in the EAAGLES environment. This paper also introduced and discussed the difficulties associated with validating human behavior models that are used in military simulations