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Murlakatam 08/19/2011

Cool model! I would only suggest to adjust zoom or increase presentation window to have all details visible.

Joe 08/19/2011

Fixed the presentation window issue, is set to maximize the presentation window in the application but this doesn't appear to happen any longer when you export to Java applet.

George Gonzalez-Rivas 08/21/2011

Like the model.  Some questions:  the insurgents seem to move very fast vis à vis the drone speed but I am not familiar with drones... is this correct?  Second, shouldn't there be logic so that after a successful insurgent attack a drone would be dispatched to intercept the fleeing insurgents?  Third, I cannot tell if the insurgents are following the topography or not... are they?

Joe 08/24/2011

In this demo model the insurgent land speed was assumed to reflect both familiarity with the topography (i.e. local insurgents would know the shortest route through any given grid cell to a destination) and access to basic types of vehicles.  The drones are probably slower than in real life, but when they're at surveillance flight speed they actually aren't all that fast compared to other aircraft.  In the proprietary model I have both insurgent spotter and drone radio communications built in and reactive to line of sight and settlement attack observation - can't include that here for various reasons.  The insurgents do have some limited topography following behavior, but their movement is also based on some random variable distributions as to what their risk-taking behavioral threshold is and how much they value attacking quickly.  This is the primary determinant of whether they go straight for the target through likely areas of drone surveillance or take the long ways around to a target, since as I mentioned above they are already assumed to have excellent knowledge of local topography.

Ali Asgary 08/09/2013

Very useful model. I wonder if it is possible to share the source? Thanks. Ali