1 WANTED A FEW GOOD AGENTS

2 Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations 24 April 2002 Enabling Real-time Operations in Coalitions. LCDR Dylan Schmorrow, MSC, USN, Ph.D Information Processing Technology Office

3 CoABS Control of Agent Based Systems November 2001 Nov97 Apr98 Aug98 Apr99 AugSep00 Nov00 Oct01 Jan02 Feb02 Apr02 Oct02 Jan03 Feb03 ISAT Study RAP (FY01) Program Start -BAA Contract Awards CoABS Kick-Off Meeting Select Partners for Trans.Grid Middleware First Demonstrations – Grid 1.0 JFE-ESG (Navy) – CoAX (NATO) Grid 3.0 CoABS Team Workshop : Control Collaboration BAA Release Selection – Metrics Established RAP Workshop FY03 Start RAP Phase BREAKTHROUGH - Agent Science Fair Compare & Contrast Down Select Grid 4.0 Release – COAX

4 The Problem vs Heterogeneity Commonality

5 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 A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A The CoABS Program has been predicated on proving these hypotheses! Is Proving ! The CoABS Interoperability Hypotheses

6 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

7 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)

8 CoABS Feasibility 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

9 NEXT STEPS Tight Little Workshop – Jim Hendler Insitutionalize The Grid Effect successful transitions

10 Something to Think About “Any organizational structure about which a critical mass of human endeavour coalesces – resulting in progress” UNISEMANTIC