Linking Military Systems with Simulations and Intelligent Agents Through Web Services to Support Courses of Action Analysis

Abstract

The Department of Defense (DoD) has begun to invest resources to support the development of the Global Information Grid (GIG), a plug-and-play Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) whose goal is to enable interoperability between network-centric entities. This chapter describes the current state-of-the-art in web services technology and its role in the GIG. It then discusses a GIG prototype supporting the web-service enabled interoperability between a military system, simulation and intelligent agents for Course of Action Analysis (CoAA). Next, this chapter addresses challenges for agents in the GIG, as well as potential limitations in the use of web services. This chapter concludes with a survey of competing technologies that may help overcome the limitations and provides a brief summary, including future research areas with regard to the GIG prototype.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA638066

Entities

People

  • Ranjeev Mittu

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Birds
  • Command And Control
  • Commerce
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Department Of Defense
  • Global Information Grid
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Intelligent Agents
  • Multiagent Systems
  • Networks
  • Simulations
  • Web Service

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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