Defence Industry Applications of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Description

Defense and security related applications are increasingly being tackled by researchers and practioners using technologies developed in the field of Intelligent Agent research. This book is a collection of recent refereed papers drawn from workshops and other colloquia held in various venues around the world in the last two years. The contributions in this book describe work in the development of command and control systems, military communications systems, information systems, surveillance systems, autonomous vehicles, simulators and Human Computer Interactions. The broad nature of the application domain is matched by the diversity of techniques used in the papers that are included in the collection which provides, for the first time, an overview of the most significant work being performed by the leading workers in this area. It provides a single reference point for the state of the art in the field at the moment and will be of interest to Computer Science professionals working in the defense sector, and academics and students investigating the technology of Intelligent Agents that are curious to see how the technology is applied in practice. Front Matter....Pages i-x Nexus: Self-organising Agent-based Peer-to-Peer Middleware for Battlespace Support....Pages 1-13 Information-Based Control of Decentralised Sensor Networks....Pages 15-32 Managing Intelligence Resources Using Semantic Matchmaking and Argumentation....Pages 33-50 Agent Applications in Defense Logistics....Pages 51-72 AGENTFLY: Towards Multi-Agent Technology in Free Flight Air Traffic Control....Pages 73-96 Controlling Teams of Uninhabited Air Vehicles....Pages 97-112 Simulating Fighter Pilots....Pages 113-130 MAS Combat Simulation....Pages 131-150 Using Multi-Agent Teams to Improve the Training of Incident Commanders....Pages 151-166