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New WOPR simulation environment models high-stakes organizational decisions

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Researchers have developed WOPR, a new social simulation environment designed to study high-stakes decision-making within organizations. This environment utilizes a deterministic, replay-validated rules engine and wargames to model strategic choices. WOPR aims to address limitations in existing social simulation work by providing a verifiable rules engine with replayable mechanics and private negotiation channels, making every strategic choice an explicit agent decision. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Glenn Matlin, Isaac Song, Anthony Wen-Ming Zang, Mark Riedl ·

    No One Wins in Nuclear War: A Social Simulation of Military Decision-making

    arXiv:2608.01868v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: WOPR is a social-simulation environment for studying how organizations make high-stakes decisions, built on a deterministic, replay-validated rules engine and using wargames as the vehicle. We instantiate it first with the publish…

  2. arXiv cs.MA (Multiagent) TIER_1 English(EN) · Mark Riedl ·

    No One Wins in Nuclear War: A Social Simulation of Military Decision-making

    WOPR is a social-simulation environment for studying how organizations make high-stakes decisions, built on a deterministic, replay-validated rules engine and using wargames as the vehicle. We instantiate it first with the published card game Nuclear War, traced against its publi…

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