Representing dispositions and emotions in simulated combat

  • Authors:
  • H. Van Dyke Parunak;Robert Bisson;Sven Brueckner;Robert Matthews;John Sauter

  • Affiliations:
  • Altarum Institute, Ann Arbor, MI;Altarum Institute, Ann Arbor, MI;Altarum Institute, Ann Arbor, MI;Altarum Institute, Ann Arbor, MI;Altarum Institute, Ann Arbor, MI

  • Venue:
  • DAMAS'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Defence Applications of Multi-Agent Systems
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Emotion is an essential element of human behavior. Particularly in stressful situations such as combat, it is at least as important as rational analysis in determining a participant's behavior. Yet combat models routinely ignore this factor. DETT (Disposition, Emotion, Trigger, Tendency) is an environmentally mediated model of emotion that captures the essential features of the widely-used OCC (Ortony, Clore, Collins) model in a computationally tractable framework that can support large numbers of combatants. We motivate and describe this architecture, and report preliminary experiments that use it in simulating combat scenarios.