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A Concise User's Guide to ISAAC-FL: ISAAC's Mission-Fitness Landscape Mapper Program
September 1, 1997
ISAAC (Irreducible Semi-Autonomous Adaptive Combat) is a simple multiagent-based 'toy model' of land combat design to illustrate how certain aspects of land combat can be viewed as emergent phenomena resulting from the collective, nonlinear, decentralized interactions among notional combatants. ISAAC takes a bottom-up, synthesist approach to the modeling of combat, vice the more traditional top-down, reductionist approach, and represents a first step toward developing a complex systems theoretic analyst's toolbox for identifying, exploring, and possibly exploiting emergent collective patterns of behavior on the battlefield. This model was developed as part of a recently completed project, sponsored by the Marine Corps Combat Development Command, that assessed the general applicability of 'complex systems theory.' The focus of this brief is a stand-alone Mission-Fitness Landscape Mapper that uses the core engine to 'map-out' the behavior over a user-defined d-dimensional slice of ISAAC's total N-dimensional phase-space.
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A User's Guide to the MOFO Model
August 1, 1989
This research memorandum is a user's guide for the six-degree-of-freedom flight path generator, Model of Flying Objects (MOFO). Described in detail are the procedures for setting up, running, and modifying the model's underlying software, as well as input data requirements and the output that the model provides. A functional description of each program module is included, and listings of the FORTRAN source code and an automated modification routine appear as appendixes.
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User's Guide to the Claritas Zip Code Data Set
December 1, 1986
The Claritas data set was created in the summer of 1985 and contains all the zip codes within 100 miles of 426 Reserve centers. This paper describes the data set and contents, and explains specific uses of the file.
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An Introduction to Wargaming and Its Uses
October 1, 1985
The nature of wargaming and its uses in exploring defense issues is discussed in this paper. It is the first in a series of papers written to help wargame designers, players, analysts, and decision makers at all levels to better understand and exploit wargaming.
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USERS GUIDE TO THE REPORT GENERATOR FOR THE NAVY RESOURCE MODEL
December 1, 1978
The Report Generator is a highly generalized information-extracting and report-formatting computer routine. Through a sophisticated command language and system of dictionaries, it can report out information in countless formats and degrees of detail. The description of the Report Generator in this users' guide is for the dictionaries and data files used in the Navy Resource Model (NARM), at CNA. However, it is possible for the reader to apply the Report Generator to his own management information system by creating his own dictionaries for his own data tapes. How to create dictionaries is described in this guide.
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AIRCRAFT FORCE PROJECTION MODEL VOL I USERS GUIDE TO AFPM
August 1, 1974
The Aircraft Force Projection Model (AFPM) is designed to project the Navy's aircraft inventory over a ten-year period and attempts to satisfy the operating requirements of a given set of forces with the projected operating inventory. In addition the AFPM generates useful characteristics of the aircraft inventory such as projections of the age distributions, attrition quantities, pipeline requirements, and rework requirements. This volume describes the input data file, file maintenance procedures, and how to run the model. The Aircraft Force Projection Model (AFPM) is documented in two volumes. Volume I, The Users Guide, describes the input data file, file maintenance procedures, and how to run the model. Volume II, The Programmers Guide, contains a detailed explanation of the AFPM computer programs and program listings.
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USERS GUIDE TO PROGRAM UPDATE FOR THE NAVY RESOURCE MODEL
August 1, 1974
The Navy Resource Model (NARM) is a system of computer programs which provides the capability to cost a total Department of the Navy program. Attached to the basic cost model are many peripheral programs that serve important functions. This paper focuses on the use of one such program, UPDATE. UPDATE's function is to provide the NARM user with a flexible method of changing the data base. It is intended to be a guide for the new or casual user as well as a reference for the experienced user.
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DESCRIPTION OF THE CNA SCOPE OPERATING SYSTEM
June 1, 1974
The characteristics and operational capabilities of the CNA Scope operating system are described in this paper. Emphasis is placed on output backgrounding and the use of random-access equipment.
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WRITEUP FOR B34TCNA: A STEP-WISE MULTIPLE REGRESSION PROGRAM
June 1, 1974
This paper is intended as a day-to-day guide to the use of B34TCNA, a program that calculates multiple linear regression in a step-wise manner, inserting at each step that variable which is eligible and has the highest partial correlation with the dependent variable. This guide tells how to punch control cards and implement the options available in the program.
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USERS GUIDE FOR GENERALIZED FACTOR ANALYSIS PROGRAM (FACTAN)
June 1, 1974
This paper discusses the procedure of factor analysis and provides details on the use of a computer program which performs a principal components analysis, tests of significance, and rotation of factors determined from a matrix of intercorrelations of up to 99 variables.
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