Snap: A time critical decision-making framework for MOUT simulations

Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds

Volumn 19, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 505-514

  Ting, Shang Ping ^a   Zhou, Suiping ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Military Operations on Urban Terrain (MOUT); Time critical decision making; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

BITS; CASE BASED REASONING; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; MILITARY OPERATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CHALLENGING PROBLEM; CURRENT SITUATION; DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES; MILITARY OPERATIONS ON URBAN TERRAIN (MOUT); NON-PLAYER CHARACTERS; PARTIAL INFORMATION; RATIONAL ANALYSIS; SITUATION AWARENESS; TACTICAL BEHAVIORS; TIME CRITICAL DECISION MAKING; URBAN TERRAIN; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 52949118081     PISSN: 15464261     EISSN: 1546427X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cav.262     Document Type: Conference Paper

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