ITO and Its Eigen Areas

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WANTED A FEW GOOD AGENTS
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Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations24
April 2002
Enabling Real-time Operations in Coalitions.
LCDR Dylan Schmorrow, MSC, USN, Ph.D Information
Processing Technology Office 703-696-4466
dschmorrow_at_darpa.mil
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CoABS Control of Agent Based SystemsNovember
2001
JFE-ESG (Navy) CoAX (NATO) Grid 3.0
Select Partners for Trans.Grid Middleware
BREAKTHROUGH - Agent Science Fair
CoABS Team Workshop Control Collaboration
Compare Contrast Down Select Grid 4.0 Release
COAX
First Demonstrations Grid 1.0
Selection Metrics Established
FY03 Start RAP Phase
CoABS Kick-Off Meeting
Program Start -BAA
RAP Workshop
Contract Awards
BAA Release
Nov97 Apr98 Aug98 Apr99
AugSep00 Nov00 Oct01 Jan02 Feb02
Apr02 Oct02 Jan03 Feb03
ISAT Study RAP (FY01)
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The Problem
Commonality
vs
Heterogeneity
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The CoABS Interoperability Hypotheses

• Large scale systems can be built by the run-time
  integration of heterogeneous systems
• Agent-Based System Concepts facilitate this
  integration
• Legacy systems can be agentized to provide
  external access and interoperability

Is Proving !
The CoABS Program has been predicated on proving
these hypotheses!
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The Working Solution

• Provide dynamic discovery, and connection, of
  military systems, thus enhancing operations
  (planning, command, execution, combat support)
  and response to changing operations by
  establishing a framework for integrating diverse
  agent-based and legacy systems

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Program Structure

• CoABS grid allows heterogeneous agent and legacy
  systems to
• Register themselves
• Advertise their capabilities needs
• Find available resources
• Communicate among themselves
• Form task-based teams
• Encrypt conversations
• CoABS technologies developing new and novel
  approaches
• Mixed initiative control
• Agent coordination control
• Agent infrastructure / automatic creation
  discovery
• Mobile agents
• Domain research (adversarial uncertainty)

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CoABSFeasibility demos

• Graduation Exercise
• COAX Coalition Operations Demo stressing
  scenario
• October 2002
• Deliverables end 2002
• Working Grid with automatic wrapping
• Tool Kit for user-easy agent creation
• Capability to support 1,000 of agents

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NEXT STEPS

• Tight Little Workshop Jim Hendler
• Insitutionalize The Grid
• Effect successful transitions

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Something to Think About

• Any organizational structure about which a
  critical mass of human endeavour coalesces
  resulting in progress

UNISEMANTIC