Project: POWERS (Psychological Operations and Weapons: Evaluation by Robust Simulation)
POWERS is a Project joining Italy, France and Turkey under an EUCLID CEPA11 Program
The POWERS project aim is to develop an innovative Simulator of PSYOPS (Psychological Operations) able to evaluate their effectiveness and consequences. POWERS is based on HLA (High Level Architecture) as framework for the model in order to guarantee the usability in HLA Federations and wargames.
POWERS includes a stochastic simulator that reproduces PSYOPS by using AI (Artificial Intelligence) and integrating different models allowing to estimate the range of alternatives, so it becomes a DSS (Decision Support System) for evaluating the risks connected with PSYOPS in complex scenarios.
POWERS creates a library of dynamics models for estimating the impact of the PSYOPS in different frameworks while POWERS Simulator provides estimation of the different possible scenario evolutions considering the stochastic factors.
POWERS applies an advanced integration of methodologies based on AI in order to support the PSYOPS knowledge management; Fuzzy Logic is extensively applied for providing both understandable models and correct behaviour representation. The complex nature of the results provided by PSYOPS requires special analysis: for this reason POWERS uses Artificial Neural Networks as support for identification and correlation between causes and effects.