Defence Applications of Multi-Agent Systems

Discussion Paper.- Autonomous Agents and Multi –agent Systems (AAMAS) for the Military – Issues and Challenges.- I: Decision Support and Simulation.- Enhanced Maritime Situation Awareness with Negotiator Agents.- Agent-Based Parsimonious Decision Support Paradigm Employing Bayesian Belief Networks.- Distributed Decision-Making and Control for Agile Military Radio Networks.- Representing Dispositions and Emotions in Simulated Combat.- II: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.- Application of Action Selection, Information Gathering, and Information Evaluation Technologies to UAV Target Tracking.- A Multi-agent UAV Swarm for Automatic Target Recognition.- III: Systems and Security.- Analysis and Run-Time Verification of Dynamic Security Policies.- Cognitive Agents for Sense and Respond Logistics.- A Mobile Agent-Based Middleware for Opportunistic Resource Allocation and Communications.- Invited Paper.- Armed Services: Challenges for Military Distributed Systems.