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A computer simulation of a receiver intercepting radar emissions in a tactical maritime environment has been developed as a means of stimulating a knowledge-based system for signal interpretation. The development of the model from concept, through a prototype in Prolog, to the current version in C is described in this paper. The model is designed to run in a multi processing environment providing real-time simulation of the signal environment to allow the performance of the knowledge- based system to be evaluated. The model provides a language for specifying scenarios in an object-oriented style, and uses inter process communication facilities provided by the UNIX operating system to connect to the application system. Interactive tools to control the runtime characteristics of the simulation are also provided.

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A software stimulator for a knowledge-based ESM system

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