Intelligent Reusable Software Agents for Digital Battlefields

"Phase I demonstrated the feasibility of using the intelligent software agents for information management and engagement decision aids. Phase II will build upon Phase I to develop a general purpose, reusable commercial software product referred to asIntelligent Reusable Software Agents. The distinguishing features of the product are the automation in multi levels, knowledge base, inference mechanism, and communication. The methodologies and techniques for multiple-sensor multiple-target tracking,distributed information fusion and optimal decision-making will be refined and developed. A modeling, design, analysis, and simulation environment is established to implement the system architecture, and environment recognition and adaptation. Key issuesrelated to the real-time implementation of the system are addressed. The proposed system not only takes advantage of innovative individual methodologies but also, more significantly, emphasizes the synergism among all the subsystems to assure overallperformance of the decision-making system. An application concerning the Raptor Systems Integration Laboratory (SIL)/Raptor Virtual Proving Ground (RVPG) is conducted to show the usefulness of the proposed approaches."