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Situational Awareness. Common theme in a variety of scenarios spanning from “hot” conflicts, homeland security, Cyber-Physical Systems, disaster relief, medicine, ITS, Network Operation/Management … Driven by a desire to move from “React and Respond” to “Predict and Be Pro-Active”
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Situational Awareness Common theme in a variety of scenarios spanning from “hot” conflicts, homeland security, Cyber-Physical Systems, disaster relief, medicine, ITS, Network Operation/Management … Driven by a desire to move from “React and Respond” to “Predict and Be Pro-Active” Spans CS – sensors, wireless (ad-hoc) networks, embedded systems, stream data management, analytics, … Highly distributed and dynamic system
Why Agents • Agents provide a good distributed abstraction in which to create such systems • Each entity is independent, can maintain local state/KB • Well defined interaction • Communication (e.g. FIPA) • Approaches to Argumentation • Trying to resolve conflicts of understanding which are liable to happen • Mesh well with, and can leverage, declarative approaches and policies
Some Recent UMBC Efforts • DARPA Traumapod • ONR Relief Social Media • DARPA PbWAN • DHS UICDS • Underlying technologies developed • MANET management and security • Ontologies and Policy Languages • Social Media Analytics (NER, Community Detection, …) • Streaming Analytics on KBs • Reasoning with uncertain/incomplete information
