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Towards Agent Validation of a Military Cyber Team Performance Simulation

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Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling (SBP-BRiMS 2020)

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This paper discusses the design consideration for an agent-based model empirical validation. Agent behaviors are designed in order to create outcome measures clearly aligned with performance. A simulation of a military cyber team engaged in a conflict with an adversarial force is run in order to analyze output data and determine considerations for future validations.

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  1. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

    Geoffrey B. Dobson & Kathleen M. Carley

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  1. United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, USA

    Robert Thomson

  2. University of Michigan-Flint, Flint, MI, USA

    Halil Bisgin

  3. Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA

    Christopher Dancy

  4. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Ayaz Hyder

  5. University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR, USA

    Muhammad Hussain

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Dobson, G.B., Carley, K.M. (2020). Towards Agent Validation of a Military Cyber Team Performance Simulation. In: Thomson, R., Bisgin, H., Dancy, C., Hyder, A., Hussain, M. (eds) Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling. SBP-BRiMS 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12268. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61255-9_18

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