Think differently for good crises
Anders Mattson, Lykke Silfwerbrand · Summer Computer Simulation Conference · 2008
Early on in development of simulation tools for training of Crisis Organizations and Teams, military models and simulators where edited, modified, converted and used. Tanks became fire trucks, an APC was converted to a police car.The training organizations benefited a lot from military experiences and from efforts and money spent by different DoD/MoD's.But three different parameters distorted perfect picture.1. In military scenarios there are no high fidelity models and simulations of general public. This is of outmost importance in a Societal Crisis Game.2. A military commander leads in a well-organized and structured manner. The Societal Crisis Manager will find himself running a hard-to-comprehend Hoc organization.3. During military command management is of outmost importance, is seldom taken into account. During Societal Crises makes big difference.To utilize good simulators for Crisis you need to take all these three parameters in account. The models for the general public, human leadership and Ad Hoc Management have to be developed. The development has to follow available standards such as HLA-family. But you also need to develop new standards such as CML (a developed C-BML) and a CMSS-FOM.This paper will present some good, and some bad, experiences from development of Crisis Scenarios.... and good military simulations of transportation and movement are still valid, even during civilian actions.