MR-OA: An Effective Framework for NCW Study Based on Multi-agent Simulation

The Network-Centric warfare (NCW) has been the hot research spot in military area since its potential capacity and big advantages. Since it is a complex adaptive system (CAS) with many autonomous entities, the multi-Agent modeling and simulation (MABMS) technology has been the most popular method to study it. But the fact that the calculation load increases with the Agent Number accords with exponential relationship will decrease its performance seriously and has restricted its application to a great extent. Aimed at this main problem, this paper proposed a new multi-Agent framework combining the multi-resolution technology with the OA (observe and action) circle theory named as MR-OA in short to cope with it effectively. After presenting its modeling process and mechanism at detail from three aspects, we took some simulation experiments to prove its validity, high efficiency and feasibility. The result indicates the large significance of the MR-OA framework and it may solve the high modeling complexity and low efficiency problem meeting the study of NCW based on MABMS thoroughly.