Transcript AIAI Presentation

I-X Technology
Applications to Collaborative
Emergency Response
Collaborative Sensemaking, Planning and Execution
via sharing of issues, activity options, constraints and annotations
Prof. Austin Tate
Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute
University of Edinburgh
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/plan/
Examples of AIAI’s Collaborative
Emergency Response Research
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1991-9: Coalition NEO – Non-combatant Evacuation Operations
1994-6: SAR – RAF Search and Rescue Coordination Centre (Pitreavie, UK)
2000-2: CoAX – Coalition Agents eXperiment (4 countries, 30 organisations)
2002-3: CoSAR-TS – Coalition Search and Rescue Task Support
2002-4: CoAKTinG – Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies for e-Response
2004-6: Co-OPR – Collaborative Operations for Personnel Recovery for US JFCOM
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/plan/
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DARPA
CoAX – Coalition Agents eXperiment
AIAI, BBN, CMU, Dartmouth, DSTO, GITI,
Lockheed Martin ATL, NRL, Potomac Inst., U.Maryland,
U.Michigan, QinetiQ, UT-Austin, UWF/IHMC
Support from AFRL, ARL, Boeing, DRDC, DSTL, ISX, MITRE,
MIT Sloan, NWDC, OBJS, Schafer, Stanford, TTCP, USC/ISI, USPACOM
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/coax/
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DARPA
Object Services and Consulting, Inc.
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CoABS Grid
Plans/ATOs
Theater
Picture
Master
Battle
Planner
Theater
Picture
Grid Service Helper
Grid Service Helper
Discover,
Join,
Lookup
CAMPS
TBMCS
Grid Service Helper
Coalition
Partners
Grid Service Helper
Search
CoABS Grid Core Services
Logging
Security
Publish
Subscribe
Grid Service Helper
Register
Tactical
Capabilities
Picture
Search
Grid Service Helper
GCCS-M
Target
List
Subscribe Instrumentation
Visualization Events
Publish
Search
Grid Service Helper
Sensor
Data
Admin
Tactical
Picture
GCCS-A
Prototype CoABS Grid allows heterogeneous agent and legacy systems to:
 Register themselves
 Advertise their capabilities & needs
 Find available resources
 Communicate among themselves
 Form task-based teams
 Encrypt conversations
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CoAX Components
Agent Frameworks
KAoS Agents (IHMC, Boeing)
NOMADS Mobile Agents (IHMC)
EMAA/CAST Agents (LM-ATL)
Agents on the Grid
GMAS (Dartmouth, IHMC, LM-ATL)
AODB Agent (LM-ATL)
D’Agents (Dartmouth)
Observer Agents (Dartmouth) eGents (OBJS)
eGents E-mail Agents (OBJS)
Malicious Agents (IHMC)
DARPA
Grid
Web Weather Agent (USC/ISI)
CoABS Grid
Information Agents (BBN)
(GITI, ISX)
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LAN
LAN
LAN
Military Systems
CAMPS (AFRL,GITI, BBN)
MBP (QinetiQ)
Decision Desktop (QinetiQ)
Situation Viewer (NRL)
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Agent Grid Services
Task, Process and Event Management (AIAI)
Domain Management Services (IHMC, Boeing)
Asynchronous Wireless Connectivity (OBJS)
Plan Deconfliction (Michigan)
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CoAX Technology Contributions
• AIAI's I-X Task, Process and Event Panel Technology
• BBN Technologies MPS - Mixed-Initiative Planning and Interaction Agents, Dynamic
Agent Information Coordination Protocols, Airlift Mission Planning System Agent.
• CMU's Retsina Grid Agent Communications Visualisation and DAML-S Matchmaker.
See here for more details.
• DSTO's Future Operations Centre Analysis Laboratory (FOCAL) and Logistics
Planning using the ATTITUDE multi-agent architecture.
• Dartmouth College's Field-observation System and Mobile Agents for Medical
Monitoring
• GITI/ISX CoABS Program Grid Infrastructure
• Lockheed Martin ATL's EMAA mobile agent technology, CAST information
management agents, and I2AT agent development toolkit
• Michigan's Multilevel Coordination Agent
• MIT's Robustness Service
• NRL's Intelligent Agents for GCCS-M
• OBJS's eGents E-mail Agents and AgentGram
• QinetiQ's Decision Desktop and Master Battle Planner
• Stanford's Market Mechanisms Technology
• UMD's IMPACT agents for reasoning with probabilistic temporal information
• UTexas at Austin's Sensible Agent technology - Trust Evaluation and Organization
Adaptation
• USC/ISI's Ariadne Project
• UWF/IHMC and Boeing's KAoS Technology
• UWF/IHMC NOMADS Technology
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GAO
Grandville
Antok
Kaso
Cape
Amstado
To Cunmege
Kaso
Lagoon
Dado
Anala
Libar
Biloo
Minga
Gamba
Q Bave CACA
Kolla876
Hakkali REGION
Laval
Zatu
Red
Sea
Dinga
Higgville
QMasembi
Q
527
Brongo
Blackman
Tonka
NORTHERN REGION
268
Gao
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forces
Kamongo
Sagiba
Wonka
Zaribe
UGWULU
Adaido
175
WESTERN REGION
Kwanabouri
Bonrope
775
BINNI
BANDAR
BANDAR
REGION
788
Jinja
Q
Q
Asoba
Daka
CACA REGION
Gambaga
Nanga
Esuko Laponga
SIKASSO
Caca Dam
Aida
123
Achobo
Gonobo
Grandvache
Zingato
Saltpond
ASHANTI REGION
Libretto
613
Nedalla
Epidurango
707
AGADEZ
390
Lissa
LAKI
Agadez
Forces
588
Sagotown
752
Slabo
Q
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COSTA DEL
MARIA
Cape
Vincent
Sonara
Suthertown
Salisbury
EASTERN REGION
Wazilla
Belucar
Wampimba
Akimbo
542
Anguiba
Kutchi
Deanville
613
Bisa
To Petit Paris
AGADEZ
Sandosta
Pra
Kingtown
Sellerham
Langford
Bisha
Donga
Polia
Laki Safari
Park
UPPER REGION
436
Jamestown
St Andrews
Slafito
Diplombo
Elmina
Komenda
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CENTRAL REGION
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I-X Task Support Tools
Map Tool
Process Panel
Activity Editor
Domain Editor
I-Plan
Messenger
I-Space
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Coalition
Search and Rescue
Task Support
DARPA DAML Program
AIAI & IHMC
Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute, University of Edinburgh
Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola, Florida
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CoSAR-TS Demo Architecture
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http://www.aktors.org
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Co-OPR
Collaborative Operations for Personnel Recovery
Collaborative Sensemaking, Planning and Execution
via sharing of issues, activity options, constraints and annotations
AIAI, University of Edinburgh
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/co-opr/
Co-OPR - Illustrating a More
Collaborative Planning Framework
 Links between informal human-oriented outline planning and
more structured semi-automated detailed planning
 Outer level: human relatable and presentable objective
statements, sensemaking, advice, multiple options,
argumentation and outline plans
 Inner level: detailed planners, search engines, constraint
solvers, analyzers and simulators act in an understandable and
controllable way to provide feasibility checks, detailed
constraints and guidance
 Sharing of issues, activity options, constraints and
annotations between humans and systems operating at
various levels
 Context and current environment sensitivity
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I-X
Multi-Agency Emergency Response Planning,
Execution, and Task-Oriented Communications
Collaboration and
Communication
Central
Authorities
Command
Centre
Emergency
Responders
Isolated
Personnel
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Forthcoming Collaborative
Emergency Response Research
 2006-9: FireGrid
•Emergency Response in Large Scale Fires in the Built Environment
•http://firegrid.org
 2006-9: OpenKnowledge
•Semantic Web Technologies for Emergency Response – such and in
Forest Fires
•http://openk.org
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