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To be able to meet the future challenge of employing forces anywhere in the world in support of national security objectives, modern military forces require highly synchronized, distributed planning and re-planning capabilities that are sufficiently flexible to adapt to any level of conflict. This talk will present a research program underway at the USAF Research Laboratory’s Information Directorate known as DEEP (Distributed Episodic Exploratory Planning). DEEP is an agent-based distributed planning system that has been designed to support future military command and control (C2) operations. The talk will discuss the motivation for moving from a centralized planning model to a distributed mixed-initiative approach, along with the DEEP architecture and the key research challenges for achieving this vision. The distributed agent-supported planning capabilities, which utilize past experience to solve current problems, will be emphasized.
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Lawton, J.H. (2008). Agent-Supported Planning in Distributed Command and Control Environments. In: Klusch, M., Pěchouček, M., Polleres, A. (eds) Cooperative Information Agents XII. CIA 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5180. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85834-8_5
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