Control and Guidance of Autonomous Agents
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Abstract:
DARPA is developing a new program, Network-centric Infrastructure
for Command, Control, and Intelligence (NICCI) to provide the software
infrastructure (libraries of components, design tools, etc.) that
enables groups of people, applications, and devices to be rapidly
brought together to perform a task predictably and efficiently in
the context in which they are operating.
It
will construct “habitats” that automatically provide context information
to components (software systems, objects or agents, humans). The
habitats will include business and interaction rules as an integral
part of the system. Embedding executable rules and process specifications
supports dynamic:
- automatic
acquisition / sharing of context
- monitoring
of changes in context
- enforcing
rules of component behavior and interaction
- sharing
of services where allowed
- controlling
membership with privileges and responsibilities (authority and
accountability).
Dr. John Salasin has conducted information processing research
for his entire professional career—on systems ranging in size
from the encoder mechanism of a single cell in the Limulus (horseshoe
crab) eye to the World Wide Military Command and Control (WWMCCS)
system. His education includes a Ph.D. in Computer Science and
an M.S. in Neurophysiology from the University of Minnesota, and
a B.S. in Zoology from George Washington University.
His work focuses on developing and applying engineering and management
technologies to reduce the cost and risk of large-scale system
development. He has worked at universities (University of Minnesota
and part-time teaching at George Washington University and American
University), FFRDCs (MITRE, IDA, and the SEI), state and federal
government, and private industry (GTE). He is currently a Program
Manager in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency responsible
for research programs in software and systems engineering (Evolutionary
Design of Complex Software, Dynamic Assembly for System’s Adaptability,
Reliability, and Assurance). He was previously responsible for
the Software Engineering Institute.
He has worked and published papers in the areas of modeling and
simulation, information access in hierarchical storage architectures,
privacy, research program management, technology transition, software
quality, data management systems architectures, and software/system
evolution.
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