{"title":"Evaluating the Impact of Culture on Planning and Executing Multinational Joint Force Stability, Security, Transition and Reconstruction Operations","authors":"K. Sharpe, K. Gremban, K. Holloman","doi":"10.1109/KIMAS.2007.369850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/KIMAS.2007.369850","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a recent effort, sponsored by the Defense Research Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA), to evaluate the need for a cultural assessment tool to mitigate the negative effects of cultural differences on planning and executing multinational stability and reconstruction operations","PeriodicalId":193808,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114261707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Rehák, J. Tozicka, M. Pechoucek, M. Prokopová, L. Foltýn
{"title":"Autonomous Protection Mechanism for Joint Networks in Coalition Operations","authors":"M. Rehák, J. Tozicka, M. Pechoucek, M. Prokopová, L. Foltýn","doi":"10.1109/KIMAS.2007.369840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/KIMAS.2007.369840","url":null,"abstract":"Any successful coalition cooperation requires efficient communication network connecting the coalition members. Protection of this joint network requires special techniques as it is highly dynamic, heterogenous and a joint network management team can not always be established. To address the requirements for joint network protection, we propose a design of a highly autonomous, adaptive and decentralized agent-based mechanism for network intrusion detection and self-protection. Detection process is based on correlation of anomalies in network traffic with simple alarms raised by host-based intrusion detection components, in order to achieve a low false positive rate. The self-protection mechanism features distributed, policy driven deployment of automatically generated filters. Our approach doesn't require any direct operator oversight, but all components are subject to policies established by their owners to prevent undesirable behavior or system misuse. The whole approach is validated in a high-level network model with worm propagation scenario","PeriodicalId":193808,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114622381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Krause, L.A. Lehman, B. McQueary, A. Stirtzinger, S.A. Stirtzinger
{"title":"The Role of Intelligent Models in the Implementation of Service Oriented Architectures","authors":"L. Krause, L.A. Lehman, B. McQueary, A. Stirtzinger, S.A. Stirtzinger","doi":"10.1109/KIMAS.2007.369786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/KIMAS.2007.369786","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an approach and methodology for the development, deployment and maintenance of Web-service service oriented architecture (SOA) platforms based on the concept of a Community of Exchange (CoEx). It presents the CoEx as a formal construct made up of cognizant authorities, and collaborative parties, in the business process of represented by the CoEx. The paper discusses how the CoEx concept is used to maintain established standards of compliance within the platform, and how the CoEx is used to control and maintain the integrity of the underlying business processes. It discusses how the CoEx will expand upon typical control of data access with SOA platforms expanding that notion to encompass all elements of the business process as well. It will further explore the use of advanced modeling techniques, adapted from the simulation and modeling domain, to describe the controlling elements of the CoEx and how model driven aspects will control the deployment, use and maintenance of the underlying SOA platform. The paper demonstrates how governance authority represented by the CoEx body will be implemented in a Web ontology that will drive roles, responsibilities and service interaction within the SOA platform","PeriodicalId":193808,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123934309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cooperative Self-Organizing Coalitions: Technological Framework","authors":"A. Smirnov, N. Shilov, T. Levashova","doi":"10.1109/KIMAS.2007.369842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/KIMAS.2007.369842","url":null,"abstract":"The paper proposes an approach aimed at solving a problem of organizing ad-hoc self-configuring networks for such tasks as disaster relief and evacuation. Usually the tasks of this type involve a number of different heterogeneous teams, which have to collaborate in order to succeed. Centralized control is not always possible due to damages in local infrastructure, different subordination of participating teams, etc. The approach assumes decentralized communication and ad-hoc decision making based on the current situation state and its possible future development in order to avoid the above obstacles. There are a number of problems to be resolved within the approach. They include interoperability at both technological and semantic level, situation understanding by the members via information exchange, protocols of ad-hoc decision making for self-organization and other. It is planned to use such technologies as situation management, knowledge and ontology management, profiling, intelligent agents, Web-services, decision making support, negotiation protocols, etc","PeriodicalId":193808,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115031849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cooperative Navigation Function based Navigation of Multiple Mobile Robots","authors":"S. Pedduri, K. Krishna, H. Hexmoor","doi":"10.1109/KIMAS.2007.369822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/KIMAS.2007.369822","url":null,"abstract":"A cooperative methodology for collision avoidance of multiple wheeled robots, having respective goals to reach, is detailed in this paper. The paths executed by the robots are continuous not only in terms of positions reached by the robots but also in terms of their velocities. A navigation function is designed that, apart from taking into account goal reaching and avoidance behaviors, also implicitly captures cooperative behavior amongst robots by identifying spaces where collisions between robots tend to be minimized. A search in the joint space of linear and angular velocities of the robots results in selection of a linear and angular velocity tuple for each robot that minimizes the navigation function. Simulated results portray the efficacy of the methodology","PeriodicalId":193808,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121304701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identification of Concepts in Text Using Dynamic Logic","authors":"S. Petrov, I. Muchnik, S. Streltsov, L. Perlovsky","doi":"10.1109/KIMAS.2007.369830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/KIMAS.2007.369830","url":null,"abstract":"Identification of concepts in a text depends on the text representation, concept representation, and identification methods. Paper describes all three components: creation of synonymless vocabulary, text transformation, representation of concepts by their models, optimization of these models, and concept identification with dynamic logic that is a general method of reducing computational complexity of combinatorial problems.","PeriodicalId":193808,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121554253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding Process Differences: Agreeing Upon a Single Way to Skin a Cat","authors":"S. Poltrock, M. Handel, M. Klein","doi":"10.1109/KIMAS.2007.369851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/KIMAS.2007.369851","url":null,"abstract":"Supporting human collaboration is challenging partly because of variability in how people collaborate. Even within a single organization, there can be many variants of processes which have the same purpose. When diverse coalition members must work together, the differences can be especially large, baffling and disruptive. Coordination theory provides a method and vocabulary for modeling complex collaborative activities in a way that makes both the similarities and differences between them more visible. To demonstrate this, we modeled three very different engineering change management processes and found: (1) most of the work is coordination-related; (2) despite large apparent differences, a coordination-theoretic analysis revealed substantial commonalities among the three processes; and (3) differences in the processes were due to choices regarding coordination mechanisms. This approach has promise for helping to merge or integrate different processes and to suggest ways that agents can participate in complex collaborative processes.","PeriodicalId":193808,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121931126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Break of Logic Symmetry by Self-conflicting Agents: Descriptive vs. Prescriptive Rules","authors":"Boris Kovalerchuk, G. Resconi","doi":"10.1109/KIMAS.2007.369834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/KIMAS.2007.369834","url":null,"abstract":"Classical axiomatic uncertainty theories (probability theory and others) model reasoning of rational agents. These theories are prescriptive, i.e., prescribe how a rational agent should reason about uncertainties. In particular, it is prescribed that (1) uncertainty P of any sentencep is evaluated by a single scalar P(p) value, (2) the truth-value of any tautology (por-p) is true, and (3) the truth-value of any contradiction (pnland-p) is false for every proposition p. However, real agents can be quite irrational in many aspects and do not follow rational prescriptions. In this paper, we build a logic of irrational and conflicting agents called I-agent logic of uncertainty (IALU) as a vector logic of evaluations of sentences. This logic does not prescribe rules on how an agent should reason rationally, but describe rules on how agents reason irrationally. This is a descriptive not prescriptive theory in contrast with the classical logic and the probability theories. This provides a new possibility to better understand and model uncertainties associated with social conflict phenomena. We show that the fuzzy logic has a potential to become a scalar version of a descriptive logic of irrational agents because it satisfies several necessary conditions of IALU","PeriodicalId":193808,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122306758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Autonomic Network Applications Designed after Immunological Self-Regulatory Adaptation","authors":"Chonho Lee, J. Suzuki","doi":"10.1109/KIMAS.2007.369813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/KIMAS.2007.369813","url":null,"abstract":"As Internet applications have been rapidly increasing in complexity and scale, they are expected to be autonomous and adaptive to dynamic changes in the network. Based on the observation that various biological systems have already overcome these requirements, this paper describes a biologically-inspired framework, called iNet, to design autonomous and adaptive Internet applications. It is designed after the mechanisms behind how the immune system detects antigens (e.g., viruses), specifically produces antibodies to eliminate them, and self-regulates the production of antibodies against its anomaly (e.g., immunodeficiency and autoimmunity). iNet models a set of environment conditions (e.g., network traffic and resource availability) as an antigen and a behavior of applications (e.g., migration and reproduction) as an antibody. iNet allows each application to autonomously sense its surrounding environment conditions (i.e., an antigen) to evaluate whether it adapts well to the sensed conditions based on an evaluation policy, and if it does not, adaptively invoke a behavior (i.e., an antibody) suitable for the conditions. iNet also allows each application to dynamically configure its own evaluation policy so that it can trigger the behavior invocation at the right time. Simulation results show that iNet allows applications to autonomously adapt to changing environment conditions and to dynamically self-regulate the behavior invocation by configuring the evaluation policy when the evaluation fails","PeriodicalId":193808,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128446172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emergent Power Delineation in Multi-Agent Swarms","authors":"B. McLaughlan, H. Hexmoor","doi":"10.1109/KIMAS.2007.369810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/KIMAS.2007.369810","url":null,"abstract":"An organization is well delineated when all its members have a relative power ranking that is neither too high nor too low. Since responsibility and authority follow fully deconflicted patterns, a delineated organization is well suited for solving problems. We have developed a low-latency, agent-level algorithm for non-deterministically establishing power levels and provide a metric for quantifying the appropriateness of rankings. An agent's rank is appropriate if it has a unique chain of superiors leading to the highest-ranking individual.","PeriodicalId":193808,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134186176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}