I-X TechnologyI-X TechnologyApplications to CollaborativeApplications to Collaborative

Emergency ResponseEmergency Response

Collaborative Sensemaking, Planning and ExecutionCollaborative Sensemaking, Planning and Executionvia sharing of issues, activity options, constraints and annotationsvia sharing of issues, activity options, constraints and annotations

Prof. Austin TateProf. Austin TateArtificial Intelligence Applications InstituteArtificial Intelligence Applications Institute

University of EdinburghUniversity of Edinburgh

http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/plan/http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/plan/

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Examples of AIAI’s CollaborativeEmergency Response Research

1991-9: Coalition NEO – Non-combatant Evacuation Operations 1994-6: SAR – RAF Search and Rescue Coordination Centre (Pitreavie, UK) 2000-2: CoAX – Coalition Agents eXperiment (4 countries, 30 organisations) 2002-3: CoSAR-TS – Coalition Search and Rescue Task Support 2002-4: CoAKTinG – Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies for e-Response 2004-6: Co-OPR – Collaborative Operations for Personnel Recovery for US JFCOM

http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/plan/

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CoAX – Coalition Agents eXperimentCoAX – Coalition Agents eXperimentAIAI, BBN, CMU, Dartmouth, DSTO, GITI,AIAI, BBN, CMU, Dartmouth, DSTO, GITI,

Lockheed Martin ATL, NRL, Potomac Inst., U.Maryland,Lockheed Martin ATL, NRL, Potomac Inst., U.Maryland,U.Michigan, QinetiQ, UT-Austin, UWF/IHMCU.Michigan, QinetiQ, UT-Austin, UWF/IHMCSupport from AFRL, ARL, Boeing, DRDC, DSTL, ISX, MITRE,Support from AFRL, ARL, Boeing, DRDC, DSTL, ISX, MITRE,

MIT Sloan, NWDC, OBJS, Schafer, Stanford, TTCP, USC/ISI, USPACOMMIT Sloan, NWDC, OBJS, Schafer, Stanford, TTCP, USC/ISI, USPACOM

http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/coax/http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/coax/

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Prototype CoABS Grid allows heterogeneous agent and legacy systems to: Register themselves Advertise their capabilities & needs Find available resources Communicate among themselves Form task-based teams Encrypt conversations

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CoAX Technology Contributions• AIAI's I-X Task, Process and Event Panel Technology • BBN Technologies MPS - Mixed-Initiative Planning and Interaction Agents, Dynamic

Agent Information Coordination Protocols, Airlift Mission Planning System Agent. • CMU's Retsina Grid Agent Communications Visualisation and DAML-S Matchmaker.

See here for more details. • DSTO's Future Operations Centre Analysis Laboratory (FOCAL) and Logistics

Planning using the ATTITUDE multi-agent architecture. • Dartmouth College's Field-observation System and Mobile Agents for Medical

Monitoring • GITI/ISX CoABS Program Grid Infrastructure • Lockheed Martin ATL's EMAA mobile agent technology, CAST information

management agents, and I2AT agent development toolkit • Michigan's Multilevel Coordination Agent • MIT's Robustness Service • NRL's Intelligent Agents for GCCS-M • OBJS's eGents E-mail Agents and AgentGram • QinetiQ's Decision Desktop and Master Battle Planner • Stanford's Market Mechanisms Technology • UMD's IMPACT agents for reasoning with probabilistic temporal information • UTexas at Austin's Sensible Agent technology - Trust Evaluation and Organization

Adaptation • USC/ISI's Ariadne Project • UWF/IHMC and Boeing's KAoS Technology • UWF/IHMC NOMADS Technology

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I-X Task Support Tools

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CoalitionSearch and Rescue

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DARPA DAML ProgramAIAI & IHMC

Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute, University of EdinburghInstitute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola, Florida

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CoSAR-TS Demo Architecture

http://www.aktors.org

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Co-OPRCo-OPRCollaborative Operations for Personnel RecoveryCollaborative Operations for Personnel Recovery

Collaborative Sensemaking, Planning and ExecutionCollaborative Sensemaking, Planning and Executionvia sharing of issues, activity options, constraints and annotationsvia sharing of issues, activity options, constraints and annotations

AIAI, University of EdinburghAIAI, University of Edinburghhttp://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/co-opr/http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/co-opr/

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LinksLinks between informal human-oriented outline planning and more structured semi-automated detailed planning

Outer levelOuter level: human relatable and presentable objective statements, sensemaking, advice, multiple options, argumentation and outline plans

Inner levelInner level: detailed planners, search engines, constraint solvers, analyzers and simulators act in an understandable and controllable way to provide feasibility checks, detailed constraints and guidance

SharingSharing of issues, activity options, constraints and annotations between humans and systems operating at various levels

ContextContext and current environment sensitivity

Co-OPR - Illustrating a More Collaborative Planning Framework

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I-XMulti-Agency Emergency Response Planning,

Execution, and Task-Oriented Communications

Collaboration and Communication

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Forthcoming CollaborativeEmergency Response Research

2006-9: FireGrid•Emergency Response in Large Scale Fires in the Built Environment•http://firegrid.org

2006-9: OpenKnowledge•Semantic Web Technologies for Emergency Response – such and in Forest Fires

•http://openk.org