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Application Of Fuzzy State Aggregation And Policy Hill Climbing To Multi-Agent Systems In Stochastic Environments, Dean C. Wardell
Application Of Fuzzy State Aggregation And Policy Hill Climbing To Multi-Agent Systems In Stochastic Environments, Dean C. Wardell
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Reinforcement learning is one of the more attractive machine learning technologies, due to its unsupervised learning structure and ability to continually even as the operating environment changes. Applying this learning to multiple cooperative software agents (a multi-agent system) not only allows each individual agent to learn from its own experience, but also opens up the opportunity for the individual agents to learn from the other agents in the system, thus accelerating the rate of learning. This research presents the novel use of fuzzy state aggregation, as the means of function approximation, combined with the policy hill climbing methods of Win …
A Software Architecture For Computer Generated Forces In Complex Distributed Virtual Environments, Vincent B. Zurita
A Software Architecture For Computer Generated Forces In Complex Distributed Virtual Environments, Vincent B. Zurita
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Complex Distributed Virtual Environments (DVEs) present an outstanding opportunity for the Department of Defense to train geographically separated units within a single realistic threat environment with minimal logistical considerations or safety concerns. To increase the fidelity of these simulations, minimize cost, and thereby maximize the training potential, DVEs must be populated with a realistic number of Computer Generated Forces (CGFs). These are currently expensive to design and build due to a lack of standard COF architectures. A solution to this problem is presented in the form of a CGF Architecture that is applicable to CGFs that model any weapon system. …
Graphical Tools For Situational Awareness Assistance For Large Battle Spaces, Brian B. Soltz
Graphical Tools For Situational Awareness Assistance For Large Battle Spaces, Brian B. Soltz
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As virtual environments grow in complexity and size, users are increasingly challenged in assessing situations in large-scale virtual environment. This occurs because of the difficulty in determining where to focus attention and assimilating and assessing the information as it floods in. One technique for providing this type of assistance is to provide the user with a first-person, immersive, synthetic environment observation post, that permits unobtrusive observation of the environment without interfering with the activity in the environment. However, for large, complex synthetic environments, this type of support is not sufficient because the portrayal of raw, unanalyzed data in the virtual …