Defence Applications Of Multi-agent Systems: International Workshop, Damas 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 25, 2005, Revised And Invited Papers (lecture Notes In Computer Science)

Defence applications are subject to some of the world’s most demanding requirements for reliability, controllability, security, flexibility, and synchronization. The evolution of defence processes towards network enabled systems and rapid deployment scenarios, is creating an urgent demand for highly adaptive and autonomous information support systems. In particular there are requirements for reduced manpower in support roles, autonomous IT infrastructures, and automated logistics and planning, all of which provide significant scope for an agent-oriented solution set. The workshop addresses the use of agent systems and agent applications applied to defence scenarios in support of these requirements. This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Defence Applications of Multi-Agent Systems, DAMAS 2005, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands in July 2005 as an associated event of AAMAS 2005, the main international conference on autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. The 10 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited article are organized in topical sections on decision support and simulation, unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as on systems and security. Front matter......Page 1 The Military Context......Page 11 Previous Work......Page 12 General Issues Around Agent and AAMAS Implementation......Page 13 Key Issues......Page 14 Analysis, Requirements and Politics......Page 15 Implementation......Page 16 Operation......Page 19 Some Ideas About Key Application Areas......Page 20 Conclusion......Page 21 References......Page 22 Situation Awareness Challenge for a Maritime Supervision System......Page 24 Agentification......Page 26 Architecture......Page 29 Implementation and Initial Results......Page 30 Related Work......Page 31 Conclusion and Perspectives......Page 32 Introduction......Page 34 Uncertainty Modelling with Bayesian Belief Networks......Page 36 BBN Model for Relative Strength Assessment......Page 37 Learning Bayesian Belief Networks......Page 38 Agent Based Learning......Page 39 The Method......Page 40 Results......Page 43 Conclusions......Page 44 References......Page 45 Introduction......Page 47 Review of Existing Practice......Page 48 Exploiting Agent Capabilities......Page 49 Autonomic Behaviour......Page 51 Key Components of the Network Control System Architecture......Page 52 Emulated Network Testbed......Page 54 Multi-agent System Implementation......Page 55 Agile Military Network Case Study......Page 56 Conclusions and Future Work......Page 59 References......Page 60 Introduction......Page 61 Combat Modeling......Page 62 Emotional Modeling......Page 63 Application Contexts......Page 66 Architecture......Page 67 MAROP......Page 69 RAID......Page 70 Conclusion......Page 72 References......Page 74 Introduction......Page 76 Overview of Technical Details......Page 77 Autonomous Action Selection......Page 78 Selecting Target Information Providers......Page 79 Valuation of Target Location Information......Page 81 Application to UAV Target Tracking......Page 82 Conclusions......Page 87 Introduction......Page 90 Ant-Based Swarming Algorithm for ATR......Page 91 COMSTAR Operation......Page 92 UAV Operation......Page 93 Deterministic Foraging......Page 94 Pheromone Landscape Update......Page 95 Task Prioritization and Navigation......Page 96 Simulation Results......Page 98 Conclusion and Future Work......Page 100 Introduction......Page 102 Interval Temporal Logic......Page 104 Security Policies......Page 106 Case Study......Page 108 Expressing Access Control Policies in Tempura......Page 110 SPAT......Page 111 Conclusion and Future Work......Page 112 Introduction......Page 114 Agents in Military and Logistics Applications......Page 116 Sense and Respond Logistics......Page 117 Agent Systems for SRL......Page 118 The ECLAIR Process Loop......Page 119 Reflex Adaptivity......Page 121 Logistics Simulation......Page 124 Results......Page 125 Conclusion......Page 128 Introduction......Page 131 Design and Implementation......Page 132 FlexFeed......Page 134 Mockets......Page 135 Coordination Components......Page 136 Acquaintance Models......Page 137 Stand-in Agents......Page 138 Illustrative Scenario......Page 141 Conclusions and Future Work......Page 143 References......Page 144 Introduction......Page 145 Why?......Page 146 Discovery......Page 147 Security......Page 148 Conclusions......Page 149 References......Page 150 Back matter......Page 151

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Defence Applications of Multi-Agent Systems, DAMAS 2005, held in July 2005 as an associated event of AAMAS 2005. The ten revised full papers presented together with one invited article are organized in topical sections on decision support and simulation, unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as on systems and security.