Process-based running mechanism for Agent-based warfare simulation

In the Agent-based warfare simulation, the behavior of Agents representing the operation entities is very complicated. The event routine-oriented simulation strategy makes the description and execution of Agent´s simulation models lack of flexibility and expandability, which isn´t helpful to reduce the complication of the modeling and simulation. In this paper, Process Interaction is presented as the simulation strategy for the Agent-based warfare simulation. The different kinds of Agent´s behavior in physical, information and cognitive domains are described in different processes, which reduces the coupling among the behavior in the three domains and improves the expansibility of the Agent´s behavior models. The scheduling operations of the behavior process including startup, hold, continuing to run and termination are controlled with Process Interaction so that the model developers don´t need to manage the scheduling of the Agent´s behavior processes, which is implemented with the multi-thread mechanism using the method of thread pool. This approach makes the Agent´s behavior description more understandable and clearer and effectively reduces the complication of the Agent´s behavior description and simulation scheduling. Through an application case, the proposed method is validated.