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The TRANSWAY® software application is an adaptive, ontology-based toolset with collaborative agents, designed to assist the Deployment and Distribution Operations Center (DDOC) staff of the United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) with the performance of movement planning tasks. The principal focus of the TRANSWAY® toolset is re-planning....
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... an intelligent net-centric software environment typically requires the seamless integration of a KMES ® -based information management facility with existing data sources. This can be achieved with an information-centric architecture that consists essentially of two components (Figure 3.1): a data-centric Data Capture and Integration Layer that incorporates linkages to existing data sources; and, an Intelligent Information Management Layer that overlays the data layer and utilizes software agents with automatic reasoning capabilities, serving as decision-support tools. ...
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... Intelligent Information Management Layer architecture (Figure 3.1) utilizes intelligent software agents capable of collaborating with each other and human operators in planning, re- planning, monitoring, and associated decision-support environments. ...
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... the past two decades the CADRC Center and more recently CDM Technologies have pursued the design and development of agent-based decision-support systems. Throughout this journey the CADRC and CDM Technologies have relied on the Integrated Cooperative Decision-Making (ICDM) software development toolkit ( Figure 3.3) to assist them in the creation and management of such systems. ...
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... 2000). The key design principles on which ICDM is founded are collaboration-intensive, context-based representation, flexibility and adaptability, multi-tiered and multi-layered, within the framework of a service-oriented, distributable architecture ( Figure 3.4). ...
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... years of research in collaborative design the CADRC has found that this same quality extends to the realm of agent-based decision-support systems. Conceptually, the systems developed by the CADRC and CDM Technologies consist of dynamic collections of collaborators (both human and software-based) each playing a role in the collective analysis of a problem or situation and the consequential decision-making assistance required in formulating an accurate assessment and/or solution ( Figure 3.5). ...
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... such, representation can exist at varying levels of abstraction. The lowest level of representation considered in Figure 3.6 is wrapped data. Wrapped data consists of low-level data, for example a textual e-mail message that is placed inside some sort of an e-mail message object. ...
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... the case of ICDM and the kinds of ontologies it manages, facades offer a method of supporting and managing an alternative perspective from that modeled in the ontology from which they are derived. In other words, ICDM-based facades allow the perspective inherent in a particular model of a domain to be augmented, or in some way altered to support a more appropriate (i.e., to the façade user) representation of the concepts, notion, and entities over which that user is operating (Figure 3.7). Note that user in this sense refers to any accessing component. ...
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... of ICDM's primary goals is to support a high degree of flexibility in respect to the configuration of its components both at the development and execution levels. ICDM supports the addition, replacement, and reuse of software components in the context of agent-based, decision-support systems, and achieves this goal by reducing inter-component coupling to an absolute minimum (Figure 3.7). There are two key ICDM properties that permit this flexibility. ...
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... the architecture of an ICDM-based decision-support system is divided into three distinct tiers namely, information, logic, and presentation. To manage its particular domain each tier contains a number of logical layers that work in sequence (Figure 3.8). ...
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... new components were designed as generic services so that they could be reused as KMES ® modules in future systems. Figure 3.9 provides an illustration of the key components and services within each of the three tiers of the TRANSWAY ® system (i.e., information, logic, and presentation tiers) and how they interact with one another. ...
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... search process is iterative by design, and each iteration comprises four sequential steps: Create Move; Select Move; Apply Move; and, Update Solution. Figure A-3 depicts the general search flow of the Planning Agent when the problem input is static (i.e., the content of the scenario object does not change). In cases where the problem input does change, the Planning Agent performs some additional operations to adapt the change ( Figure A-4). ...
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