Contact Dr John Salt
- Email: j.salt@cranfield.ac.uk
- ORCID
Areas of expertise
- Communications Systems
- Computing, Simulation & Modelling
- Defence Info Systems
- Defence Sensors
- Gun Technologies
- Operational Analysis and Simulation
Background
John obtained a combined honours BA in French and Russian from Exeter University in 1982. He then undertook a MSc in Computing Science at Newcastle University in 1988 before completing his PhD in Computer Science at Brunel University in 1999.
John is a Fellow of the Operational Research Society and member of a number of other associations and institutes:
Association for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour
Association for Computing Machinery
Member of the US Marine Corps Association
Member of the Royal United Services Institute
Current activities
John is currently module lead for the Introductory Studies and Logistics Modelling modules in the AMOR course, and lectures on Weapon Systems Performance Assessment.
He has an interest in the modelling of dismounted close combat, especially the impact of group psychology.
Clients
Hunting Engineering Ltd
Eurotunnel
The European Space Agency
Shell International
Saudi Aramco
The Norwegian Defence Research Establishment
The Amphibious Warfare Development Centre
DERA
General Dynamics UK
Niteworks
DSTL
Airbus
Publications
Conference Papers
- Salt J. (2022). A hundred years of tiny mortars
- Salt J. (2019). Precision versus rate
- Hill M & Salt J. (2018). The proper use of ignorance in intelligence
- Salt J. (2017). Presentation: Thoughts on modelling supression
- Salt J. (2016). Small arms, small data : small arms shooting accuracy and the small data problem
- Salt J. (2015). On the wagons, off the wagons: the infantry fighting vehicle problem
- Salt John . (2013). Fast, Free and Fun: Lightweight Simulation Modelling with Python
- Salt J. (2013). A comparison of incapacitation criteria: Kokinakis and Sperrazza versus Courtney and Courtney
- Salt J. (2013). Simulation: better than tyromancy?
- Hill M & Salt J. (2010). Life and Death Decisions using Sparse, Unreliable Evidence
- Hill M, Salt J & Fletcher G. (2009). Distributed working pictures
- Wise J, Smith G, Salt J, Huey P & Atkins G. (2006). Distributed Decision-Making and Control for Agile Military Radio Networks
- Salt JD. (2004). Force transformation: an historical perspective from across the Atlantic
- Salt JD & Wise J. (2004). Synthetic Epistemology: Do Brains in Jars Dream of Electric Rocks?
- Salt J. (2004). Speech Acts of War
- Salt JD. (1997). Braindance: simulating patterns of behavior
- Salt JD. (1993). Simulation Should be Easy and Fun!
Books
- Salt J. (2020). Chapter 15: learning the lessons of Port-en-Bessin, 1944 In Heck T & Friedman BA (eds), On Contested Shores. US Marine Corps University Press.
- Smith JD & Salt J. (2018). Chapter 14: Decision support in defence logistics In Jeremy Smith (ed.), Defence Logistics: Enabling and Sustaining Successful Military Operations. Kogan Page.
