| dc.contributor.author | Esmahi, Larbi | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-06-23T19:03:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-06-23T19:03:40Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-06-23T19:03:40Z | |
| dc.identifier.other | The Fourth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems ICAS'08 in Gosier, Guadeloupe, March 16-21, 2008 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2149/2601 | |
| dc.description | The ICAS 2008 (International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems) is a multi-track event covering related topics on theory and practice on systems automation, autonomous systems and autonomic computing. The main tracks refer to the general concepts of systems automation, and methodologies and techniques for designing, implementing and deploying autonomous systems.
The ICAS 2008 was organized in conjunction with the ICNS 2008 (The Fourth International Conference on Networking and Services), which gives the participants the opportunity to attend tracks from both conferences. The main Tracks of the conferences are:
• SYSAT: Advances in system automation
• AUTSY: Theory and practice of autonomous systems
• AWARE: Design and deployment of context-awareness networks, services and applications
• AUTONOMIC: Autonomic computing: design and management of self-behavioural networks and services
• MCMAC: Monitoring, control, and management of autonomous self-aware and context-aware systems
• CASES: Automation in specialized mobile environments
• ALCOC: Algorithms and theory for control and computation
• MODEL: Modeling, virtualization, any-on-demand, MDA, SO
• SELF: Self-adaptability and self-management of context-aware systems
• KUI: Knowledge-based user interface
• ENCOT: Emerging Network Communications and Technologies
• COMAN: Network Control and Management
• SERVI: Multi-technology service deployment and assurance
• NGNUS: Next Generation Networks and Ubiquitous Services
• MPQSI: Multi Provider QoS/SLA Internetworking
• GRIDNS: Grid Networks and Services
• EDNA: Emergency Services and Disaster Recovery of Networks and Applications
• IPv6DFI: Deploying the Future Infrastructure
• IPDy: Internet Packet Dynamics
• GOBS: GRID over Optical Burst Switching Networks
This paper was presented in the track about Autonomic computing. The main topics discussed in this track include:
- Policy-Based Enforcement
- Autonomic patterns
- Ontology for Autonomic License Management
- Coordinating Autonomous Agents
- QoS routing algorithm for next generation networks
- Tasks for autonomic computing
The main idea behind our work is to provide an agent-based framework for coordinating naval forces. We also addressed some aspects of evolving the paradigm of Self-Protection towards Force-Protection where Contract Nets are used to coordinate weapon assignments across the task force. The NetScheduler system we implemented introduces goal-oriented intelligent agents to negotiate for force coordination.
From discussion of this paper we received many comments that can be summarized in:
Comments:
1- This is an interesting step toward the implementation of autonomic systems using software agents for defense systems. We receive encouragement to continue the research in this direction by addressing other aspect such as the methods of coordinating combined tactics of soft kill and hard kill.
2- The scalability of the system needs to be addressed within this research.
Future work:
1- Explore the ways of measuring and testing the scalability of the system.
2- Implement a deliberative planner that combine hard kill and soft kill tactics within the same plan. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | The survivability of a naval surface combatant depends largely on the effective management of combat resources. In terms of platform-centric self-protection, situation assessment strategies and engagement policies governing weapon usage influence effective management. Situation assessment strategies enable the surface combatant to adapt to changes in the battlespace. In the case of network-centric operations, the task force’s ability to adapt to changes in the battlespace relies on the information superiority gained through shared awareness. Although shared awareness enables surface combatants to apply situation assessment strategies to self-synchronize to the situation, engagement policies governing weapons usage typically remain platform-centric and rely on centralized command structures to provide overall coordination. The research presented, herein, examines the implementation of intelligent agents to create a partially centralized, distributed command structure that uses Contract Nets to coordinate tactical responses across the task force. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | AVPR Special Research Opportunities & Academic & Professional Development Fund (A&PDF) | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 28.286.ACRF.D125; | |
| dc.title | Coordinating Autonomous Agents For Force Protection Using Contract Nets | en |
| dc.type | Presentation | en |
