Coordination in Distributed Intelligent Systems Applications

Abstract

This paper is devoted to describing the broad range application domains which implement many of the coordination strategies and techniques from the field of multi-agent systems. The domains include defense, transportation, health care, telecommunication and e-business. The purpose of this paper is to describe the diversity of the applications in which multi-agent coordination techniques have been applied to overcome the challenges or obstacles that have existed with regard to performance, interoperability and/or scalability. While the number of application domains is steadily increasing, the intent of this paper is to provide a small sampling of domains which are applying coordination techniques to build intelligent systems. This paper will also describe an emerging and important problem domain which requires the coordination among many entities across the civil-military boundary, and can benefit from multi-agent coordination techniques.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 13, 2009
Accession Number
ADA638189

Entities

People

  • Abdellah Bedrouni
  • Abdeslem Boukhtouta
  • Jean Berger
  • Ranjeev Mittu

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Commerce
  • Communication Networks
  • Computational Science
  • Computers
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Control Systems
  • Detectors
  • Health Care
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Systems
  • Intelligent Systems
  • Multiagent Systems
  • Systems Engineering
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Economics