Software Agents for Coalition Forces

Abstract

The distributed, heterogeneity, and dynamic nature of the coalition context has raised the need for new advanced technologies. These technologies aim at managing the coalition informational infrastructure, in terms of autonomy, adaptability, and scalability. To achieve this support, Software Agents (SAs) seem to be a promising approach. To develop this approach, different aspects of a coalition has to be identified. These aspects include the coalition structure; the roles and responsibilities held by people within the coalition; the flow of information within the coalition; the capabilities required or available within the coalition; and the context in which the coalition operates. For many of these aspects, SAs can be used. For instance, the coalition structure can be associated with several SAs of different types and with different roles.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADP012344

Entities

People

  • Paul Labbe'
  • Wathiq Mansoor
  • Zakaria Maamar

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Computers
  • Data Fusion
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Information Systems
  • Infrastructure
  • Intelligent Systems
  • Joint Military Activities
  • Language
  • Military Applications
  • Multiagent Systems
  • Ontologies
  • Software Agents
  • Standards
  • Systems Engineering

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.