Intelligent Agents for the Digital Battlefield

Abstract

In this report we describe some of the theoretical and practical underpinnings of a joint University of Maryland/Army Research Laboratory Project to develop a scalable architecture for supporting intelligent agent applications. The main focus of our long term research is threefold: (1) to develop the theoretical foundations of intelligent agent systems, (2) to concurrently build prototype implementations of such agent based systems, and (3) to concurrently develop applications in the area of situation awareness and assessment using the proposed agent architecture and implementation. A specific outcome of our long term research will be the development of a collaborative agent technology system, CATS, that will provide the underlying software infrastructure needed to build large, heterogeneous, distributed agent applications. CATS will provide a software environment through which multiple intelligent agents may interact with other agents, both human and computational. In addition, CATS will contain a number of intelligent agent components that will be useful for a wide variety of applications.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA357994

Entities

People

  • James Hendler
  • V. S. Subrahmanian

Organizations

  • University of Maryland

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Computer Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Engineering
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Information Systems
  • Intelligent Agents
  • Intelligent Systems
  • Language
  • Military Research
  • Models
  • Ontologies
  • User Interface

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development