Scaled worlds: development, validation and applications

A major transformation in research and training is expected, using new, more advanced versions of computer-based systems.

Technology now affords new capabilities: complex and distributed expert decisionmaking and team performance can now be elicited and rehearsed through affordable and easily distributed systems.

These new systems will transform research and training on two fronts.

It will allow research needed to bridge the gap between internal (i.e. laboratory control) and external (e.g. operational relevance) validity. In addition, it enables a coalition of forces, from training instructors and their students, to research scientists and quantitative performance modelers.