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Final Technical ReportUsing Shared Models of Activity for Coalition Task-Driven Cooperation Austin Tate, Jeff Dalton, John Levine and Jussi Stader Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute The University of Edinburgh Appleton Tower, Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9LE, UK Principal Investigator: Prof. Austin Tate. Tel: +44 131 650 2732 Contract No. F-30602-00-1-0024 Contract Value: $800,000 DARPA Order No. J662/02 Effective Date of Contract: 1 February 2000 Contract Expiration Date: 31 December 2002 Period of Work Covered: 1 February 2000 to 31 December 2002 Report Date: 6-Feb-2003
Intentionally Blank AcknowledgementsThe I-X project is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and US Air Force Research Laboratory Command and Control Directorate under grant number F30602-99-1-0024. The broader I-X research program work has also been partially supported by the UK Defence Evaluation Research Agency (DERA) under the I-Con project and under the Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT) Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC), which is sponsored by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council under grant number GR/N15764/01. The AKT IRC comprises the Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Southampton and the Open University. The U.S. Government, University of Edinburgh and other research sponsors are authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints and on-line copies for their purposes notwithstanding any copyright annotation hereon. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the U.S. Government, other research sponsors or the University of Edinburgh. Intentionally Blank Contents1. Summary 1 2. History and Comparison of I-X to other Approaches 3 3. I-X Approach 6 4. 5. I-X Process Panels and Related Tools 10 6. CoAX and Binni 6.1 Binni Scenario 15 6.2 CoAX Binni 2000 Scenario 16 6.3 CoAX Binni 2001 Scenario 17 6.4 CoAX Binni 2002 Scenario 17 6.5 CoAX Binni 2002 Technologies 19 6.6 CoAX Binni 2002 Storyboard 22
Appendix A: Intelligible AI Planning 31 Appendix B: Synthesized Artifacts as a Set of Constraints Appendix C: I-P2 - Intelligent Process Panels to Support Coalition Operations 55 Appendix D: I-X Process Panels – User Guide 65 Appendix E: I-X Systems Architecture 97 Appendix F: Enterprise Modelling, Appendix G: Software Agents as Facilitators of Coherent Coalition Operations 127 Appendix H: Coalition Agents Experiment: Multi-Agent Co-operation 151 in an International Coalition Setting Abbreviations The following abbreviations and acronyms are used within this report. They are collected together here to act as a reminder wherever the context is not clear. AIAI Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute CoABS Control of Agent-Based Systems DARPA Program CoAX Coalition Agents eXperiment CISA Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications DAML DARPA Agent Markup Language DARPA Program
I-DE I-X Domain Editor IHMC Institute for Human & Machine Cognition I-P2 I-X Process Panel I-Plan I-X Planning System I-X Intelligent Technology Research Program O-Plan Open Planning Architecture UWF University of West Florida Table of FiguresFigure 1: 2 Cycles of I-X Processing Figure 2: I-X System Architecture Figure 3: Anatomy of I-X Process Panels Figure 4: I-X Process Panels Figure 5: I-P2 Main Window and Tools Figure 6: I-DE Domain Editor Figure 7: I-X Intelligent Messaging Tool Figure 8: I-Space Panel/Agent Relationship Management Tool Figure 9. Map of Binni Region of the Red Sea Figure 10. Map of Binni showing planned Firestorm Region and Deception Figure 11: Attack on Australian Ship Intentionally Blank 1. SummaryI-X is a research programme with a number of different aspects intended to create a well-founded approach to allow humans and computer systems to cooperate in the creation or modification of some product or products such as documents, plans, designs or physical entities – i.e., it supports synthesis tasks. The I-X research draws on earlier work on Nonlin (Tate, 1977), O-Plan (Currrie and Tate, 1991; Tate et.al., 1998; Tate et.al., 2000a; 2000b). The I-X research programme includes the following threads or work areas:
The DARPA-funded component of the I-X work has primarily focussed on the development of the I-X concepts and mixed-initiative human-centric multi-participant task support and collaboration interfaces in the context of a realistic and challenging multi-national coalition military scenario. This involves UN peacekeeping operations in a fictional country named Binni (Rathmell, 1999) set in the year 2012. This scenario was created by The Technical Cooperation Program (TTCP) to foster the development of militarily relevant Knowledge Systems for Command & Control Research. A highly dynamic scenario in which the tasks to be performed are changing and in which the coalition participants are rapidly evolving is used to show the value of the I-X approach. This is done through the creation of I-X Process Panels (I-P2) and their use to link human and system agents. These systems were demonstrated within the Coalition Agents eXperiment (CoAX) – a series of demonstrations over a 3 year period from 2000-2002 and to be described later in this report and in some detail in attached papers. Directory: project -> documents project -> Terminal Decision Support Tool Systems Engineering Graduate Capstone Course Aiman Al Gingihy Danielle Murray Sara Ataya project -> Rajinder Sachar Committee project -> Cape Lookout National Seashore Historic Resource Study By project -> Cape Lookout National Seashore Historic Resource Study By project -> Chesterfield fire department response to severe storm emergencies executive analysis of fire department operations in emergency management project -> Revolutionizing Climate Modeling – Project Athena: a multi-Institutional, International Collaboration project -> What is a Hurricane? project -> Southampton Station History and Significance History Newtown Branch documents -> Atlantic Region Climate Change Conference Sept. 14 -16, 2010 documents -> Dense Traffic these documents, drawings and specifications are the property of roadeye flr general partnership, and shall not be reproduced or used without written permission from roadeye flr general partnership. RoadEye Download 0.55 Mb. Share with your friends:
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