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Defense Industry Applications of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Birkhäuser
  • Overview of the most significant work being performed by the leading workers in this area for the first time
  • Valuable decision support for planners and strategists
  • Broad nature of the application domain is matched by the diversity of techniques used in the papers
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Nexus: Self-organising Agent-based Peer-to-Peer Middleware for Battlespace Support

    • Alex Healing, Robert Ghanea-Hercock, Hakan Duman, Michal Jakob
    Pages 1-13
  3. Information-Based Control of Decentralised Sensor Networks

    • David Nicholson, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Alex Rogers
    Pages 15-32
  4. Managing Intelligence Resources Using Semantic Matchmaking and Argumentation

    • Alun Preece, Tomothy J. Norman, Mario Gomez, Nir Oren
    Pages 33-50
  5. Agent Applications in Defense Logistics

    • Todd Carrico, Mark Greaves
    Pages 51-72
  6. AGENTFLY: Towards Multi-Agent Technology in Free Flight Air Traffic Control

    • David Šišlák, Michal Pěchouček, Přemysl Volf, Dušan Pavlíček, Jiří Samek, Vladimír Mařík et al.
    Pages 73-96
  7. Controlling Teams of Uninhabited Air Vehicles

    • Jeremy W. Baxter, Graham S. Horn
    Pages 97-112
  8. Simulating Fighter Pilots

    • Clint Heinze, Michael Papasimeon, Simon Goss, Martin Cross, Russell Connell
    Pages 113-130
  9. MAS Combat Simulation

    • H. Van Dyke Parunak
    Pages 131-150

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague 6, Czech Republic

    Michal Pěchouček

  • Research and Venturing, BT. Labs, PP12, MLB1, Suffolk, UK

    Simon G. Thompson

  • Faculty for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten, Weingarten, Germany

    Holger Voos

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