Autonomous agents for digital network maximization
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Authors
DaBose, Michael W.
Subjects
Agents
Networks
Digital
Communications
Maximization
AI
Software engineering
Networks
Digital
Communications
Maximization
AI
Software engineering
Advisors
Luqi
Berzins, Valdis
Date of Issue
1997-09
Date
September 1997
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
The advent of the computer age has brought about a plenitude of benefits to the human race. Included with these benefits has been the ever increasing demand to transfer exponentially increasing amounts of information, and the associated problems of information sharing. The focus of this thesis, Naval Science Assistance Program (NSAP). and Office of Naval Research (ONR) funded research effort, has been to best utilize available digital communications assets in the radio frequency (RF) spectrum to allow sufficient transfer of information providing DOD assets flexible, rapid, and in-flight reprogramming, re-planning of strike and cruise missile assets, to engage a high value, emergent target, in the shortest possible time. The postulated methods of utilizing autonomous agents to manage information flow across network nodes has applicability to all digital networks. Based. upon the pioneering work of Pattie Maes, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and previous examination of communications node management, the implementation of independent processes, working on behalf of a host system, to optimize the effective meaningful throughput on a communications channel is not only desirable, but necessary. The evolution of semi intelligent software, whether called Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Agents, or Autonomous Agents, has reached a level of sophistication allowing the insertion of meaningful articulated processes within existing, and future systems to maximize the network efficiency systematically. Recent work by Michael Cohen on sodabots, and the evolution of user interactive TinyMUDS of the Maas-Neotek family, a virtual type personality environment, has demonstrated the ability of software to deal with dynamic and changing conditions.
Type
Thesis
Description
Series/Report No
Department
Department of Computer Science
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School
Identifiers
NPS Report Number
Sponsors
Office of Naval Research (ONR) and Naval Science Assistance Program (NSAP)
Funder
Format
xiv, 173 p.;28 cm.
Citation
Distribution Statement
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
Rights
This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.