An Integrated COA versus eCOA Tool -- Decisive Engagements

We present a technology for COA versus eCOA analysis. It provides for modeling the adaptive capacity of human systems at the level of practices, individuals, and multi-actor systems. COAs are realized as restrictions on actors' general performance capacities. We introduce the concept of a decisive engagement. This is one that both informs us as to relative risks and opportunities, and more importantly, controls outcomes so that they sharply favor friendly objectives, and minimize adversary success. We employ normative calculations to manage simulation experiments (COA versus eCOA engagements) so that we discover and redesign action toward decisive engagements. Both calculations limit the computational complexity of multi-actor simulation.