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Linguistic Geometry for Solving War Games

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Computers and Games (CG 2000)

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to introduce various types of war games and a theory for construction of winning strategies for these games, Linguistic Geometry. The paper includes examples of application of LG to planning of Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD mission).

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This paper would be impossible without extensive R&D at STILMAN Advanced Strategies, LLC (Denver, CO, USA), founded in September of 1999. STILMAN served as a key subcontractor to Rockwell Science Center (Thousand Oaks, CA, USA) for the project “Agile Symbolic Mission Control and Hostile Counteraction Strategies” funded by DARPA within the 1999 Joint Force Air Component Commander (JFACC) program.

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  1. University of Colorado at Denver, USA

    Boris Stilman

  2. STILMAN Advanced Strategies, USA

    Boris Stilman

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Tony Marsland

  2. Future University - Hakodate, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan

    Ian Frank

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Stilman, B. (2001). Linguistic Geometry for Solving War Games. In: Marsland, T., Frank, I. (eds) Computers and Games. CG 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2063. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45579-5_24

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