Simulation and Wargaming

Author Biography

Steven Aguiar is a senior engineer in the Undersea Warfare (USW) Combat Systems department and program manager for the Virtual Undersea Battlespace program at the Naval Sea Systems Command Warfare Centers. He holds several leadership roles across the Department of the Navy's Modeling & Simulation (M&S) community including M&S lead for Visualization, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. Over the last five years he has focused his efforts on the role of M&S technologies in wargaming, working with various US Fleet commands to prototype and deploy innovative wargaming environments. In 2008 he also pioneered the exploration and subsequent adoption of Virtual World technologies across the US Navy enterprise. He has an MS and a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

Ryszard Antkiewicz is an associate professor at the Cybernetics Faculty of Military University of Technology and director of Operations Research and Decision Support Department. He holds a PhD and MSc in computer science from the Military University of Technology in Warsaw, and habilitation from Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences. His scientific interest is focused on modeling and performance evaluation of computer systems and computer networks, application of quantitative methods in computer security, combat modeling and simulation, mathematical methods of decision support. He has taken part in many scientific projects connected with combat simulation, ...