A Reference Model for Agent-Based Command and Control Systems

Abstract

Standardization and the ability to integrate similar agent-based systems will be a key factor in the deployment of future military agent-based systems: multiple developers can coordinate in the development phase, integration with existing components will be streamlined in the deployment phase, and collaboration with similar systems (such as coalition forces) will be trivial. Unfortunately, there exists no taxonomy of terms that can describe concepts, definitions, and functional elements within agent-based systems. This makes accomplishing the above difficult if not impossible. In this paper, we describe a reference model for agent-based systems and show the methodology behind its development. Such a comprehensive reference model will facilitate adoption, adaptation, and integration of agent technologies into systems for use by government and private industry, with a particular focus on applications in military command and control.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA481275

Entities

People

  • Christopher J. Dugan
  • Israel Mayk
  • Joseph B. Kopena
  • Pragnesh J. Modi
  • William Clement Regli
  • William M. Mongan

Organizations

  • Drexel University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Computational Processes
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Engineering
  • Information Exchange
  • Joint Military Activities
  • Multiagent Systems
  • Operating Systems
  • Reverse Engineering
  • Software Agents
  • Taxonomy
  • Transient Response Analysis
  • Web Browsers

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control