CoAX – Coalition Agents eXperiment AIAI, BBN, CMU, Dartmouth, DSTO, GITI,

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/

Context • Increasing military requirements for coalition operations • Belief that agent computational model can support: • Coalition interoperability requirements • Dynamic and Decentralized C3I • International Agent Research Programmes • US DARPA Control of Agent Based Systems (CoABS) • UK DSTL/QinetiQ Agents Project • Australian and Canadian Agents and Coalition Work • TTCP C3I Groups for international involvement • Need for “middleware” such as is provided by CoABS Grid Infrastructure

Aim of Coalition TIE • To address unique aspects of coalition operations through the development and evaluation of: • agent domain management services • agent task, process and event management services • Specific agent services • Aim will be met through delivery of: • Phased technical demonstrations of increasing complexity • Integration of diverse agent systems • Development of generic Coalition-oriented grid services • Requirements: • Use of a wide variety of different agent systems • Use of existing military (non-agent) applications

Demonstration Schedule • 1-month demo at kick-off in February 2000 showing direct connection between DERA MBP and LM ATL AODB • 6-month integration milestone in July 2000 showing initial integration of selected CoAX components for year 2000 demo • CoAX Binni 2000 demo in Fall 2000: • Briefing the CoAX TIE and Binni scenario • Showing full integration of selected CoAX components in Binni • Telling a relevant “story” about agents for information gathering • CoAX Binni 2001 demo in Fall 2001: • Fully integrating all CoAX components in a rich coalition scenario • Expanding scope to cover dynamic re-planning • CoAX Binni 2002 demo in Fall 2002: • Showing dynamic aspects of coalition organization, domain management, tasking and event handling • Expanding scope to cover dynamic planning, coordination and execution.

Geography / Borders LAYERS: Setting Transport Water Names Lat / Long ALL Return

Binni - All Features KEY Heights (metres) Railways Tarmac roads 175 To Cecil BANDAR Population centres Military airfields Gravel roads N 37E Ports Civilian Airfields Tracks Brongo To Segumbo 21N To Pample Cape Amstado Kaso Lagoon GAO To Tifillo 34E 35E 36E 33E W E 707 390 482 436 588 752 123 775 613 175 527 268 613 876 788 542 To Cunmege 20N Akwapim-Gao Range 32E CACA REGION 38E Jacal S Caca 31E LAKE CACA 19N Daka Gambaga Escarpment CACA REGION NORTHERN REGION 18N BANDAR REGION LAKI UGWULU COSTA DEL MARIA SIKASSO BANDAR St Andrews Bisha Dinga Donga Belucar Wampimba Nanga Caca Dam Blackman Laponga Zaribe Bonrope Tonka Kwanabouri Esuko Gambaga Langford Masembi Anala Higgville Aida Epidurango Zatu Nedalla Sellerham Asoba Anguiba Slafito Kingtown Libretto Lissa Salisbury Libar Saltpond Diplombo Adaido Laval Biloo Sagiba Wazilla Gamba Antok Brongo Grandville Kutchi Dado Minga Slabo Bisa Akimbo Hakkali Jinja Kolla Sago- town Kamongo Elmina Wonka Deanville Sonara Sandosta Komenda Achobo Grandvache Polia Jamestown Kaso Suthertown Bave Gonobo Atewa Ranga Kwahu Plateau Mawli 19N × × × × × × 39E WESTERN REGION 17N Q Q Q Q Q Q Q ASHANTI REGION Zingato Amisa White Caca Afram 18N CENTRAL REGION 16N Pra Laki Safari Park Ofin AGADEZ Kapowa UPPER REGION 17N Cape Vincent Ankobra 15N Caca Gorge EASTERN REGION Tana 16N Black Caca 36E 37E 38E 39E 31E 32E 33E 34E 35E To Falo AGADEZ To Harra To Petit Paris 15N To Escallope LAYERS: Setting Geography Transport Water Names Lat / Long Return

Future Plans • Increasing the ability to work quickly and effectively in non-episodic cases (e.g., incremental coalition formation) • Distributing MCA services across multiple agents to improve reliability and scalability • Design and analyze extensions for efficiently discovering and exploiting synergistic interactions • Experiment on increasingly difficult (Coalition) scenarios • Transition: CoAX, STRATCOM?, NASA-JPL

CoAX Binni 2002 Demonstration • Dynamic “come as you are” coalition formation • Dynamic creation of ‘virtual coalition organization’ • Agents and domains added to coalition structure ‘on-the-fly’ • Dynamic coalition tasks and processes • Tailored visualizations / interface agents • Tools to improve human / software agent interaction • High-level tools usable without specialized training • Packaged generic Grid services: • Domain management and DAML-based policy analysis • Task, process, and event management • Involvement of more countries and organizations • USA – BBN – Mixed initiative agents & dynamic information flow • USA – CMU – Agent Organization and Interaction Visualization • USA – NRL, UMD, UTexas – Agent Services and Data Visualizations • Australia – DSTO – Logistics planning and information analysis

CoAX Binni CoAX International? CoAX Navy? (FBE-J, FBE-K, PC’05) CoAX Air CoAX Rescue? (Civilian) CoAX Transition Program 2000 2001 2002 2003

Further Details • http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/coax/ • Materials for this briefing are at: http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/coax/darpa/

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CoAX – Coalition Agents eXperiment AIAI, BBN, CMU, Dartmouth, DSTO, GITI,