Abstract: Aiming at the question of army equipment support requirement prediction, a new mechanism based on simulation case-based reasoning was proposed. The method was given how to describe the simulation case based on characteristic vector, and put forward the constriction of simulation case which contains primary case and accessory case, and two-steps reasoning mechanism using the conception of similarity was researched. Then, some algorithms of similarity between cases were improved and the general flow was expounded. The operation simulation case library was built applying in the requirement prediction of army equipment support. The result of reasoning proves the effectivity and credibility of this method.

Key words: operation simulation, case reasoning, equipment support, requirement prediction