DARPA Control of Agent Based Systems (CoABS) Program and Challenges for Collaborative Coalitions.

摘要

A crucial need for the modern military is the ability to rapidly assemble a set of disparate information systems into a coherently interoperating whole. This must be done without system redesign and may include interoperation with non-DoD governmental systems, with systems separately designed by coalition partners or with COTS and open-source systems that are not built to a pre- existing government standard. The Control of Agent Based Systems (CoABS) program explores the technical underpinnings of such run-time interoperability of heterogeneous systems and develops new tools for facilitating rapid systems integration in practice. As large-scale integrated systems are deployed greater stress is placed on the communications infrastructure and on the management of information resources across the system. Techniques developed for agent-based computing particularly those of mobile agents and agent-communication languages will help both in the facilitation off this multi-systems integration and in controlling the information flow to alleviate bandwidth saturation and degraded quality of service.