DARPA ULTRALOG Final Report - Industrial and Manufacturing ...

Contents
Contents .............................................................................................................. iii
Executive Summary..............................................................................................v
1 Introduction .....................................................................................................7
2 Design and survivability of distributed multi-agent systems ............................7
2.1 Designing a Network Infrastructure for Survivability of Multi-Agent
Systems .................................................................................................7
2.2 Survivability of Multi-agent based Supply Networks: A Topological
perspective.............................................................................................7
2.3 Survivability of a distributed multi-agent application – A performance
control perspective .................................................................................8
2.4 Survivability through Implementation Alternatives in Large-scale
Information Networks with Finite Load ...................................................8
3 Monitoring, situation identification and pattern extraction ...............................8
3.1 Situation Identification Using Dynamic Parameters in Complex Agent-
Based Planning Systems .......................................................................8
3.2 Estimating global stress environment through local behavior in a
multiagent-based planning system.........................................................8
3.3 Using Predictors to Improve the Robustness of Multi-Agent Systems:
Design and Implementation in Cougaar .................................................8
3.4 Survivability of Complex System – Support Vector Machine Based
Approach................................................................................................8
4 Control ............................................................................................................8
4.1 A Framework For Performance Control of Distributed Autonomous
Agents....................................................................................................8
4.2 An Autonomous Performance Control Framework for Distributed Multi-
Agent Systems: A Queueing Theory Based Approach...........................9
4.3 Adaptive control for large-scale information networks through alternative
algorithms to support survivability ..........................................................9
4.4 Self-organizing resource allocation for minimizing completion time in
large-scale distributed information networks ..........................................9
4.5 Efficient method of quantifying minimal completion time for componentbased
service networks: Network topology and resource allocation ......9
4.6 Market-based model predictive control for large-scale information
networks: Completion time and value of solution ...................................9
4.7 Coordinating control decisions of software agents for adaptation to
dynamic environments. ..........................................................................9
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