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Building on CoAX 2001 SuccessPatrick
Beautement, QinetiQ

• Patrick Beautement, QinetiQ, pbeautement_at_qinetiq.c
  om
• Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, PhD, Institute for Human and
  Machine Cognition, jbradshaw_at_ai.uwf.edu
• Michael Kirton, PhD, QinetiQ, m.kirton_at_signal.qine
  tiq.com
• Prof Austin Tate, Artificial Intelligence
  Applications Institute, a.tate_at_ed.ac.uk

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Overview - CoAX Binni 2001

• CoAX TIE seen as
• successful,
• still having momentum,
• being a suitable core for any follow-on.
• Aim of this briefing
• explain what we did,
• suggest how it can be exploited for 2002 demos.

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Overview - Issues

• Everyone understood the military context / value
  of all contributions (singly and collectively).
• TIE aims clearly stated
• overall (integrated agents - working
  collaboratively),
• for each stage / demonstration,
• for each partner (about 17).
• Expressed in the CoAX scenario / overview
  document.
• Success due to
• mutual respect, goodwill and commitment,
• good communication, shared vision /
  understanding,
• willingness to be flexible / use RAD techniques,
• technical competence / inventiveness.

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Overview - Issues - Technical

• Provision of working infrastructure
• hardware / network / IP etc,
• software / Grid / JVMs etc.
• Integration tasks
• agent message markup,
• enabling interoperability between partners
  technical contributions,
• ensuring technical contributions are compatible,
• configuration management / versioning,
• knowing how to run the software!

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Overview - Issues - Staging (1)

• Agreed aim / coherent story / 'so-what' factor
• agreed approach to be used (live demo / screencam
  etc),
• scenario / storyboard design,
• agree staging (who, what, where, how and WHY!).
• Scripts
• technical script (s) / technical operators,
• narrator's script (s) / narrator.
• Presentations
• scene-setting / overview presentation,
• integrating partner's presentations.
• Overview Handout(s).

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Overview - Issues - Staging (2)

• Rehearsals.
• For the demonstration
• stage management of
• machines, projectors and screens (video
  switching),
• narrators and operator co-ordination.
• timings,
• changeovers.
• Fall-back options, eg
• screencams,
• PowerPoint engineering.

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Overview - Issues - Follow-up

• DVD / CD for distribution.
• Posters.
• Web-site maintenance.

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Exploitation for 2002 ...

• Agree the unified and coherent story that needs
  to be told
• what is the military context?
• what needs to proven / shown (metrics etc) and
  why?
• how will it be done?
• Give due attention to the
• storyboarding / scripting / stage management,
• integration.
• Keep the technology in its place and use it to
  tell a militarily valid story.
• Understand
• the part to be played by each partner's
  contribution,
• the overall architecture (and how it all fits
  together) ...

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CoAX 2002 Demo - Agent Domains (Draft 30 Nov
2001)
GRID / Agent-enabled Infrastructure / Admin Tools
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