He held the position of Dean of Cybernetics Faculty and vice president of the University for scientific affairs. He holds MSc and PhD in computer science from the Military University of Technology of Poland. He also holds a doctor of science in computer science, decision support systems from Warsaw University of Technology. His scientific, professional, and educational activities are mainly focused on artificial intelligence, modeling and simulation, designing of military decision support systems, threat prediction, wargames designing, cybersecurity and cyberwar. He was project leader of Polish Army Simulation System for CAXes and many Polish or international projects on DSS in the area of security and defense. He is the member of IFORS and member of Polish Society of Operations Research and Systems Analysis, vice president of Polish Society of Computer Simulation, the supervisor of 10 doctorates and general chair or co‐chair of many international scientific conferences in the area of MCIS and AI, and author of 5 books and over than 130 publications. He is a member of special group of analysts, who participated in the evaluation of possible results of international war games for eastern Europe. He is an expert in the Strategic Defense Review of Polish Armed Forces.
Ernest H. Page is the DARPA portfolio manager at The MITRE Corporation. Previously he served as chief engineer within the Modeling, Simulation, Experimentation and Analytics Technical Center, and founding Director of MITRE’s Simulation Experimentation and Analytics Lab (SEAL). He holds a PhD in computer science from Virginia Tech. With a research interest in simulation modeling methodology, and distributed systems, he has served as principal investigator on numerous government‐funded and Independent Research and Development (IR&D) projects. He has held a variety of senior advisory roles, including: technical advisor for the U.S. Army Model and Simulation Office, chief scientist for the U.S. Army Future Combat Systems (FCS) Modeling Architecture for Research and Experimentation (MATREX), and member of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Gaming, Exercising and Modeling and Simulation. Dr. Page has published over 50 peer‐reviewed articles in the areas of simulation modeling methodology, and parallel and distributed systems. He served as the chair of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Simulation (SIGSIM), the Board of Directors of the Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), and serves on the editorial boards of Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation, and Journal of Simulation.
Dariusz Pierzchała is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Cybernetics at the Military University of Technology (MUT) in Warsaw, Poland. He graduated from MUT with a MSc degree in information systems. In 2002 he obtained PhD in simulation and decision support. He is also Polish member of STO/NATO Modelling and Simulation Group. He has been teaching a variety of subjects over the last 15 years, from computer engineering to modeling and simulation and knowledge management. With the beginning of 2013, on retiring from the Polish Armed Forces as Colonel, he assumed the position of civilian assistant professor and deputy director at the Institute of Computer and Information Systems. His scientific interests concern decision support systems, machine learning, and computer simulation in the domain of national security, defense and crisis management. He received multiple awards, individually and as a team member, including the NATO STO Scientific Achievement Award (2015).
Phillip E. Pournelle retired as commander from the US Navy after 26 years of service as a surface warfare officer. He served on cruisers, destroyers, amphibious ships, and an experimental high‐speed vessel. He served on the Navy Staff doing campaign analysis, at the Office of Secretary of Defense Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, and at the Office of Net Assessment. He is now the senior director for wargaming and analysis at the Long‐Term Strategy Group. He has a master of science degree from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He lives in Fairfax, Virginia.
Joseph Saur is currently working as a software engineer for Taurus TeleSYS on an R&D project supporting Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia. He holds an MS/CS and a BS/CS from Old Dominion University, graduated w/distinction from the Naval War College, and a BS in biology from St. John's University. A wargamer for over 50 years, he has studied both wargaming and combat modeling academically, has taught multiple classes in computer science at a variety on institutions, including Georgia Tech, Regent University, and ECPI. He also taught courses in wargaming at the Marine Corps University and Marine Corps Warfighting Lab. He served as the government's assessment lead for the DARPA/JFCOM "Integrated Battle Command" project, which attempted to create an integrated set of models representing the entire Political, Military, Economic, Social, Infrastructure and Information (PMESII) spectrum, and the ability to postulate Diplomatic, Information, Military and Economic (DIME) Courses of Action (COA) in an attempt to predict (short‐term) potential multi‐dimensional outcomes.
Johannes Schmidt studied business mathematics from 2013 to 2018 at the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, Germany. Since 2018 he is a research associate at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus‐Senftenberg. He works in the field of mixed‐integer optimization with differential equation‐based constraints. He is particularly interested in the mission planning of unmanned aerial vehicles.
Rikke Amilde Seehuus is a senior scientist at FFI, Kjeller Norway. She holds a PhD in computer science and a MSc in mathematics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. Her research interests include artificial intelligence, behavior modeling, and autonomous systems.
Mark Sisson is currently an operations research analyst with over 10 years’ experience at United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM). As a graduate of the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), a USSTRATCOM fellow and distinguished graduate from the University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies Red Teaming School, he is engaged in USSTRATCOM plans analysis. In his previous life, he was an aviator specializing in electronic warfare (EW) with over 4500 hours (including combat) in bombers, reconnaissance, and foreign military sales. He is currently working on his doctorate in strategic security, where he is exploring how to combine wargames with other analytical tools.
Andreas Tolk is a senior principal chief scientist at the MITRE Corporation in Charlottesville Virginia, and adjunct full professor at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He holds a PhD and MSc in computer science from the University of the Federal Armed Forces of Germany. His research interests include computational and epistemological foundations and constraints of model‐based solutions in computational sciences and their application in support of model‐based systems engineering, including the integration of simulation methods and tools into the systems engineering education and best practices. This includes the application of simulation methods in support of command and control, wargaming, and training domains. He published more than 250 peer‐reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers, and edited 14 textbooks and compendia on systems engineering and modeling and simulation topics. He is a fellow of the Society for Modeling and Simulation (SCS) and senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He received multiple awards, including distinguished contribution awards from SCS and ACM.
Charles Turnitsa is assistant professor in the Engineering and Computer Science Department at Regent University. He is the lead of the Computer Engineering program. He continues to do research work for the US Government, as a senior research scientist with Georgia Tech Research Institute. He holds a PhD in modeling and simulation, and MSc in electrical and computer engineering from Old Dominion University. He has been a wargamer, both as a hobbyist and a professional, for four decades. His research interests are in the application of combat modeling, the representation of knowledge within computer simulation systems, and the modeling of complex information. He has participated in numerous research projects related to the above areas, and other related areas, and continues to be active in both teaching and research. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Society for Modeling and Simulation (SCS). He has received numerous awards for his research contributions and remains a very active participant in the hobby wargaming field, currently serving as the president of the Old Dominion Military Society (the historical wargaming club of Southeast Virginia).
