Defence applications are subject to some of the world’s most demanding requirements for reliability, controllability, security, flexibility, and synchronization. The evolution of defence processes towards network enabled systems and rapid deployment scenarios, is creating an urgent demand for highly adaptive and autonomous information support systems. In particular there are requirements for reduced manpower in support roles, autonomous IT infrastructures, and automated logistics and planning, all of which provide significant scope for an agent-oriented solution set. The workshop addresses the use of agent systems and agent applications applied to defence scenarios in support of these requirements.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Defence Applications of Multi-Agent Systems, DAMAS 2005, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands in July 2005 as an associated event of AAMAS 2005, the main international conference on autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. The 10 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited article are organized in topical sections on decision support and simulation, unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as on systems and security.
Author(s): Simon G. Thompson, Robert Ghanea-Hercock
Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3890
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 151
Front matter......Page 1
The Military Context......Page 11
Previous Work......Page 12
General Issues Around Agent and AAMAS Implementation......Page 13
Key Issues......Page 14
Analysis, Requirements and Politics......Page 15
Implementation......Page 16
Operation......Page 19
Some Ideas About Key Application Areas......Page 20
Conclusion......Page 21
References......Page 22
Situation Awareness Challenge for a Maritime Supervision System......Page 24
Agentification......Page 26
Architecture......Page 29
Implementation and Initial Results......Page 30
Related Work......Page 31
Conclusion and Perspectives......Page 32
Introduction......Page 34
Uncertainty Modelling with Bayesian Belief Networks......Page 36
BBN Model for Relative Strength Assessment......Page 37
Learning Bayesian Belief Networks......Page 38
Agent Based Learning......Page 39
The Method......Page 40
Results......Page 43
Conclusions......Page 44
References......Page 45
Introduction......Page 47
Review of Existing Practice......Page 48
Exploiting Agent Capabilities......Page 49
Autonomic Behaviour......Page 51
Key Components of the Network Control System Architecture......Page 52
Emulated Network Testbed......Page 54
Multi-agent System Implementation......Page 55
Agile Military Network Case Study......Page 56
Conclusions and Future Work......Page 59
References......Page 60
Introduction......Page 61
Combat Modeling......Page 62
Emotional Modeling......Page 63
Application Contexts......Page 66
Architecture......Page 67
MAROP......Page 69
RAID......Page 70
Conclusion......Page 72
References......Page 74
Introduction......Page 76
Overview of Technical Details......Page 77
Autonomous Action Selection......Page 78
Selecting Target Information Providers......Page 79
Valuation of Target Location Information......Page 81
Application to UAV Target Tracking......Page 82
Conclusions......Page 87
Introduction......Page 90
Ant-Based Swarming Algorithm for ATR......Page 91
COMSTAR Operation......Page 92
UAV Operation......Page 93
Deterministic Foraging......Page 94
Pheromone Landscape Update......Page 95
Task Prioritization and Navigation......Page 96
Simulation Results......Page 98
Conclusion and Future Work......Page 100
Introduction......Page 102
Interval Temporal Logic......Page 104
Security Policies......Page 106
Case Study......Page 108
Expressing Access Control Policies in Tempura......Page 110
SPAT......Page 111
Conclusion and Future Work......Page 112
Introduction......Page 114
Agents in Military and Logistics Applications......Page 116
Sense and Respond Logistics......Page 117
Agent Systems for SRL......Page 118
The ECLAIR Process Loop......Page 119
Reflex Adaptivity......Page 121
Logistics Simulation......Page 124
Results......Page 125
Conclusion......Page 128
Introduction......Page 131
Design and Implementation......Page 132
FlexFeed......Page 134
Mockets......Page 135
Coordination Components......Page 136
Acquaintance Models......Page 137
Stand-in Agents......Page 138
Illustrative Scenario......Page 141
Conclusions and Future Work......Page 143
References......Page 144
Introduction......Page 145
Why?......Page 146
Discovery......Page 147
Security......Page 148
Conclusions......Page 149
References......Page 150
Back matter......Page 151
