Defence Applications of Multi-Agent Systems: International Workshop, DAMAS 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 25, 2005, Revised and Invited Papers / Edition 1

by Simon G. Thompson, Robert Ghanea-Hercock

Overview

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Defence Applications of Multi-Agent Systems, DAMAS 2005, held in July 2005 as an associated event of AAMAS 2005. The ten revised full papers presented together with one invited article are organized in topical sections on decision support and simulation, unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as on systems and security.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540328322
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	04/28/2006
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #3890
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	142
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

Discussion Paper.- Autonomous Agents and Multi –agent Systems (AAMAS) for the Military – Issues and Challenges.- I: Decision Support and Simulation.- Enhanced Maritime Situation Awareness with Negotiator Agents.- Agent-Based Parsimonious Decision Support Paradigm Employing Bayesian Belief Networks.- Distributed Decision-Making and Control for Agile Military Radio Networks.- Representing Dispositions and Emotions in Simulated Combat.- II: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.- Application of Action Selection, Information Gathering, and Information Evaluation Technologies to UAV Target Tracking.- A Multi-agent UAV Swarm for Automatic Target Recognition.- III: Systems and Security.- Analysis and Run-Time Verification of Dynamic Security Policies.- Cognitive Agents for Sense and Respond Logistics.- A Mobile Agent-Based Middleware for Opportunistic Resource Allocation and Communications.- Invited Paper.- Armed Services: Challenges for Military Distributed Systems.