E-Merge-ANT: A Toolkit to Create Run-Time Autonomous Negotiating Teams (ANT) Generators, Aggregators, and Synthesizers

摘要

This project addressed the problem of the real-time management of distributed resources. It developed an abstract formulation in terms of distributed constraint optimization and developed a simple anytime algorithm that was shown to be effective efficient robust and scalable to large problems. It extended the formulation and algorithm to the management of distributed sensors in a target detection and tracking application. It also developed high- level models for resource management in time-critical targeting in air campaigns and extended an existing scheduler generator tool to automatically generate executable schedulers that quickly assign aircraft and munitions to prosecute targets of opportunity while minimizing disruption to pre-planned target prosecutions.