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Over the past fifty years, many thousands of conflict simulations have been published that bring the dynamics of past and possible future wars to life.In this book, Philip Sabin explores the theory and practice of conflict simulation as a topic in its own right, based on his thirty years of experience in designing wargames and using them in teaching. Simulating War sets conflict simulation in its proper context alongside more familiar techniques such as game theory and operational analysis. It explains in detail the analytical and modelling techniques involved, and it teaches you how to design your own simulations of conflicts of your choice. The book provides eight simple illustrative simulations of specific historical conflicts, complete with rules, maps and counters.Simulating War is essential reading for all recreational or professional simulation gamers, and for anyone who is interested in modelling war, from teachers and students to military officers

War games. --- Kriegsspiel --- War --- Wargames --- Military art and science --- Military maneuvers --- Simulation games --- Tactics --- Mathematical models --- Simulation games. --- Mathematical models. --- Games of status --- Gaming simulations --- Mixed games (Simulation games) --- Sim games --- Status, Games of --- Game theory --- Simulation methods --- Fighting --- Military power --- Military science --- Warfare --- Warfare, Primitive --- Naval art and science --- War games --- Military art and science - Mathematical models

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This book provides the state of the art in the simulation and gaming study field by systematically collecting excellent papers presented at the 46th International Simulation and Gaming Association annual conference held in Kyoto 17–25 July 2015. Simulation and gaming has been used in a wide variety of areas ranging from early childhood education and school-age children, universities, and professional education, to policy exploration and social problem solving. Moreover, it now been drastically changing its features in the Internet Of Things (IOT) society while taking over a wide variety of aliases, such as serious games and gamification. Most of the papers on which this book’s chapters are based were written by academic researchers, both up-and-coming and well known. In addition, simulation and gaming is a translational system science going from theory to clinical cross-disciplinary topics. With this book, therefore, graduate students and higher-level researchers, educators, and practitioners can become familiar with the state-of-the-art academic research on simulation and gaming in the network society of the twenty-first century.

Game theory. --- Social policy. --- Economics. --- Game Theory. --- Social Policy. --- Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences. --- Simulation methods. --- Simulation games. --- Games of status --- Gaming simulations --- Mixed games (Simulation games) --- Sim games --- Status, Games of --- Simulation techniques --- System simulation --- Game theory --- Simulation methods --- Operations research --- Systems engineering --- Models and modelmaking --- Mathematics. --- Math --- Science --- National planning --- State planning --- Economic policy --- Family policy --- Social history --- Games, Theory of --- Theory of games --- Mathematical models --- Mathematics

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This collection of excellent papers cultivates a new perspective on agent-based social system sciences, gaming simulation, and their hybridization. Most of the papers included here were presented in the special session titled Agent-Based Modeling Meets Gaming Simulation at ISAGA2003, the 34th annual conference of the International Simulation and Gaming Association (ISAGA) at Kazusa Akademia Park in Kisarazu, Chiba, Japan, August 25–29, 2003. This post-proceedings was supported by the twenty-?rst century COE (Centers of Excellence) program Creation of Agent-Based Social Systems Sciences (ABSSS), established at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2004. The present volume comprises papers submitted to the special session of ISAGA2003 and provides a good example of the diverse scope and standard of research achieved in simulation and gaming today. The theme of the special session at ISAGA2003 was Agent-Based Modeling Meets Gaming Simulation. Nowadays, agent-based simulation is becoming very popular for modeling and solving complex social phenomena. It is also used to arrive at practical solutions to social problems. At the same time, however, the validity of simulation does not exist in the magni?cence of the model. R. Axelrod stresses the simplicity of the agent-based simulation model through the “Keep it simple, stupid” (KISS) principle: As an ideal, simple modeling is essential.

Social sciences --- Simulation games --- Simulation methods --- Data processing --- Games of status --- Gaming simulations --- Mixed games (Simulation games) --- Sim games --- Status, Games of --- Game theory --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Computer simulation. --- Organization. --- Consciousness. --- Sociology, general. --- Simulation and Modeling. --- Personality and Social Psychology. --- Apperception --- Mind and body --- Perception --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Spirit --- Self --- Organisation --- Management --- Computer modeling --- Computer models --- Modeling, Computer --- Models, Computer --- Simulation, Computer --- Electromechanical analogies --- Mathematical models --- Model-integrated computing --- Sociology. --- Planning. --- Personality. --- Social psychology. --- Mass psychology --- Psychology, Social --- Human ecology --- Social groups --- Sociology --- Personal identity --- Personality psychology --- Personality theory --- Personality traits --- Personology --- Traits, Personality --- Individuality --- Persons --- Temperament --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Executive ability --- Organization --- Social theory

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This book explores the gamer’s dilemma, which lies at the heart of theorising about the morality of certain video game content. The dilemma is as follows: given that gaming content involves virtual characters within a virtual environment, the moral permission of virtual murder would also appear to morally permit virtual paedophilia. Yet most gamers and members of wider society would not want to play, endorse, or find in any way morally acceptable the enactment of virtual paedophilia within a video game. Yet by accepting the moral permissibility of virtual murder they leave themselves vulnerable to having to accept the moral permissibility of virtual paedophilia. This book provides an incredibly thorough and systematic analysis and evaluation of the gamer’s dilemma, by considering the origins of the intuitions around the dilemma, and exploring whether they find support from traditional or contemporary moral theory and psychological research. The book will be great interest to academics and students of philosophy and psychology, as well as members of the wider public interested in video game violence and taboo enactments more generally.

Psychology. --- Ethics. --- Crime --- Computer crimes. --- Personality. --- Social psychology. --- Sexual behavior. --- Sexual psychology. --- Personality and Social Psychology. --- Sexual Behavior. --- Cybercrime. --- Crime and Society. --- Moral Philosophy. --- Sociological aspects. --- Video games --- Simulation games --- Psychological aspects. --- Games of status --- Gaming simulations --- Mixed games (Simulation games) --- Sim games --- Status, Games of --- Psychology, Sexual --- Sex --- Sexual behavior, Psychology of --- Sexual psychology --- Sensuality --- Mass psychology --- Psychology, Social --- Human ecology --- Psychology --- Social groups --- Sociology --- Personal identity --- Personality psychology --- Personality theory --- Personality traits --- Personology --- Traits, Personality --- Individuality --- Persons --- Self --- Temperament --- Computers and crime --- Cyber crimes --- Cybercrimes --- Electronic crimes (Computer crimes) --- Internet crimes --- Privacy, Right of --- Criminal sociology --- Criminology --- Sociology of crime --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- Behavioral sciences --- Mental philosophy --- Mind --- Science, Mental --- Human biology --- Soul --- Mental health --- Psychological aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Game theory --- Simulation methods --- Consciousness. --- Crime—Sociological aspects. --- Apperception --- Mind and body --- Perception --- Spirit --- Difference (Psychology). --- Sex (Psychology). --- Personality and Differential Psychology. --- Psychology of Gender and Sexuality. --- Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics. --- Differential psychology --- Psychology, Differential --- Differentiation (Developmental psychology)

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This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 44th International Simulation and Gaming Association Conference, ISAGA 2013, and the IFIP WG 5.7 Workshop on Experimental Interactive Learning in Industrial Management, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in June 2013 The 30 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on frontiers in gaming simulation for education; frontiers in gaming simulation for design and experimentation; frontiers in gaming simulation for transportation and logistics; and professionalism and business in gaming simulation.

Computer science. --- Computer Communication Networks. --- Software engineering. --- Computer software. --- Information storage and retrieval systems. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Computer Science. --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet). --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Software Engineering. --- Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity. --- Information Storage and Retrieval. --- Electrical & Computer Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Telecommunications --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Automatic data storage --- Automatic information retrieval --- Automation in documentation --- Computer-based information systems --- Data processing systems --- Data storage and retrieval systems --- Discovery systems, Information --- Information discovery systems --- Information processing systems --- Information retrieval systems --- Machine data storage and retrieval --- Mechanized information storage and retrieval systems --- Software, Computer --- Computer software engineering --- Informatics --- Computer communication systems. --- Algorithms. --- Information storage and retrieval. --- Computer simulation --- Computer games --- Simulation games --- Game theory --- Simulation methods --- Simulation games in education --- Computer games. --- Computer simulation. --- Game theory. --- Simulation games. --- Simulation games in education. --- Simulation methods. --- Simulation techniques --- System simulation --- Operations research --- Systems engineering --- Models and modelmaking --- Education --- Educational gaming --- Gaming, Educational --- Educational games --- Games of status --- Gaming simulations --- Mixed games (Simulation games) --- Sim games --- Status, Games of --- Games, Theory of --- Theory of games --- Mathematical models --- Mathematics --- Computer modeling --- Computer models --- Modeling, Computer --- Models, Computer --- Simulation, Computer --- Electromechanical analogies --- Model-integrated computing --- Application software --- Electronic games --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Computer systems --- Engineering --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Electronic information resources --- Data libraries --- Digital libraries --- Information organization --- Information retrieval --- Application software. --- Algorism --- Algebra --- Arithmetic --- Communication systems, Computer --- Computer communication systems --- Data networks, Computer --- ECNs (Electronic communication networks) --- Electronic communication networks --- Networks, Computer --- Teleprocessing networks --- Data transmission systems --- Digital communications --- Electronic systems --- Information networks --- Telecommunication --- Cyberinfrastructure --- Network computers --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software --- Foundations --- Distributed processing