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Title: Coalition Agents Experiment: Multiagent Cooperation in International Coalitions
Author: David N. Allsopp, Patrick Beautement, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Edmund H. Durfee, Michael Kirton, Craig A. Knoblock, Niranjan Suri, Austin Tate, and Craig W. Thompson
Journal: IEEE Intelligent Systems
Volume: 17
Number: 3
Month: May/June
Year: 2002
DOI: 10.1041/x3026s-2002
Abstract: Military coalitions are examples of large-scale, multi-faceted, virtual organizations, which sometimes need to be rapidly created and flexibly changed as circumstances alter. The Coalition Agents Experiment (CoAX) aims to show that multiagent systems are an effective way of dealing with the complexity of real-world problems, such as agile and robust coalition operations and enabling interoperability between heterogeneous components, including legacy and actual military systems. CoAX is an international collaboration carried out under the auspices of DARPA's Control of Agent-Based Systems (CoABS) program. Building on the CoABS Grid framework, the CoAX agent infrastructure groups agents into domains that reflect real-world organizational, functional, and national boundaries, such that security and access to agents and information can be governed by policies at multiple levels. A series of staged demonstrations of increased complexity are being conducted in a stylized yet realistic peace-enforcement scenario taking place in 2012 in the fictitious African state of Binni. These demonstrations show how agent technologies support the rapid, coordinated construction of a coalition command system for intelligence gathering, for visualization, and for campaign, battle, and mission planning and execution.

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@Article{allsopp02a,
  author =	 {David N. Allsopp and Patrick Beautement and Jeffrey
                  M. Bradshaw and Edmund H. Durfee and Michael Kirton
                  and Craig A. Knoblock and Niranjan Suri and Austin
                  Tate and Craig W. Thompson},
  title =	 {Coalition Agents Experiment: Multiagent Cooperation
                  in International Coalitions },
  journal =	 {{IEEE} Intelligent Systems},
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  year =	 2002,
  volume =	 17,
  number =	 3,
  month =	 {May/June},
  abstract =	 {Military coalitions are examples of large-scale,
                  multi-faceted, virtual organizations, which
                  sometimes need to be rapidly created and flexibly
                  changed as circumstances alter. The Coalition Agents
                  Experiment (CoAX) aims to show that multiagent
                  systems are an effective way of dealing with the
                  complexity of real-world problems, such as agile and
                  robust coalition operations and enabling
                  interoperability between heterogeneous components,
                  including legacy and actual military systems. CoAX
                  is an international collaboration carried out under
                  the auspices of DARPA's Control of Agent-Based
                  Systems (CoABS) program. Building on the CoABS Grid
                  framework, the CoAX agent infrastructure groups
                  agents into domains that reflect real-world
                  organizational, functional, and national boundaries,
                  such that security and access to agents and
                  information can be governed by policies at multiple
                  levels. A series of staged demonstrations of
                  increased complexity are being conducted in a
                  stylized yet realistic peace-enforcement scenario
                  taking place in 2012 in the fictitious African state
                  of Binni. These demonstrations show how agent
                  technologies support the rapid, coordinated
                  construction of a coalition command system for
                  intelligence gathering, for visualization, and for
                  campaign, battle, and mission planning and
                  execution.},
  keywords =     {multiagent coalitions},
  url =		 {http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/library/allsopp02a.pdf},
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  doi =		 {10.1041/x3026s-2002},
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}
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