Defence Applications of Multi-Agent Systems International Workshop,
Defence applications are subject to some of the world’s most demanding requirements for reliability, controllability, security, flexibility, and synchronization. The evolution of defence processes towards network enabled systems and rapid deployment scena
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Simon G. Thompson Robert Ghanea-Hercock (Eds.)
Defence Applications of Multi-Agent Systems International Workshop, DAMAS 2005 Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 25, 2005 Revised and Invited Papers
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Simon G. Thompson Robert Ghanea-Hercock BT Labs, Adastral Park, MLB1 PP12 Martlesham, Ipswich IP5 3RE, UK E-mail: {simon.2.thompson, robert.ghanea-hercock}@bt.com
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Preface
The evolution of defense processes towards network-enabled systems and rapid deployment scenarios, as exemplified by the UK Network Enabled Capability (NEC) program or the US Network Centric Warfare (NCW) effort, is creating an urgent demand for highly adaptive and autonomous information support systems. These are large-scale organizational and technological transformational processes. There is therefore a requirement to create autonomous IT infrastructures with automated logistics and planning capability, all of which provides significant scope for an agentbased approach. The emerging problem set in the defense ICT domain is also mirrored in the civil sector for enterprise scale systems, where cost reduction, legacy integration, scalability and security, are all significant problems to be addressed. To date, the civil sector has taken the lead on the application of agent systems, particularly in the manufacturing sector, (e.g., [Jennings & Bussmann 2003]). Recently, agent systems have become significant mainstream ICT technologies with the emergence of IBM’s autonomic computing initiative and the integration of agent technology in various products for infrastructure management. Further information on civilian applications of agent technology can be found in the AAMAS industrial applicatio
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