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282 THE CORNWALLIS GROUP XIV: ANALYSIS FOR SOCIETAL CONFLICT AND COUNTER-INSURGENCYFigure 10: Experiment 2 — Different weather conditions.Finally, with the third experiment, we simply wanted to demonstrate that the detailedphysical modeling approach in fact results in much more realistic behavior. We compared avery simply modeled sensor with our detailed physical optical sensor. Since the simple sensordoes not distinguish between different weather conditions or different times of the day, thedetection distance was constant, of course (Figure 11).Figure 11: Experiment 3 — Simple and abstract sensor returns constant detectiondistance regardless of different weather conditions or times of the day.Using the detailed physical optical sensors, by contrast, allows us to get much morereliable and realistic results. And that is essential when using ABSEM for analyzing theinfluence of complex technical systems (especially networked sensors and effectors) onmilitary capabilities and the operational outcome.