A Software Agent Toolkit for Effective Information Processing in the Battle Command Domain

Abstract

Commanders of combat units have traditionally desired as much information as possible to aid them in making key decisions. Ironically, we have reached the stage where there is now too much information available. A commonly proposed solution is to utilize software agents to collect information, select what is useful, and deliver it to the commander. By their nature, software agents are active, distributed, intelligent, and persistent computations, so they can enable the best information to be made available when and where it is needed. Unfortunately using such software agents effectively requires computer programming expertise not typically available to a battlefield commander. Global InfoTek Inc (GITI) is currently assembling a suite of agent development tools that will enable programmers to develop software agents that can be controlled and manipulated by the commanders in the field.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA481497

Entities

People

  • Michael N. Huhns
  • Tedd W. Gimber

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Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Program Documentation
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Information Processing
  • Language
  • Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
  • Operating Systems
  • Sensor Networks
  • Software Agents
  • Standards
  • User Interface
  • Web Service
  • Xml

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

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