Authors: Agostino G. Bruzzone, Marina Massei, Irene Piccini, Alberto Tremori
The paper addresses the need to create realistic simulation environments to test operational procedures and technological solutions for maritime interdiction with special attention to Piracy; the authors developed human behavior models to represent the maritime traffic and their rational and emotional reactions to the patrolling vessels and to their actions; this simulation applies intelligent agents and stochastic discrete event simulation for addressing this context and it was experimented also within an interoperable framework to be federated with real systems (e.g. C2, planners) and with other models (e.g. weather forecasts, training equipment).