Agent-Based Configurable Testbed.

摘要

The ABC Testbed Project spanned the period from April 2000 to December 2001. The project began as part of the DARPA Information Assurance and Survivability (IA&S) program and concluded as part of the DARPA Ultra*Log program. The project focus was to contribute experimentation methodologies and software tools for the understanding of composed, distributed systems with a particular emphasis on enhancing survivability of these systems. The idea was to capture the state of developing system and to visualize this system state in such a manner that it provides intuitive understanding of the system behavior. The ABC project culminated with the development of the Cougaar Society Monitoring and Analysis Reporting Tool (CSMART). Cougaar is a large-scale distributed agent application with minimal consideration for the underlying architecture infrastructure. CSMART is an integrated toolset for building, running, monitoring, and analyzing Cougaar societies, and for performing experiments on those societies by systematically carrying their properties and comparing the resulting behaviors.