An Agent Based Approach to Situational Awareness Anupam Joshi UMBC/IBM Research-India Joint Work with several colleagues

Situational Awareness Common theme in a variety of scenarios spanning from “hot” conflicts, homeland security, Cyber-Physical Systems, disaster relief, medicine, ITS, Network Operation/Management … Driven by a desire to move from “React and Respond” to “Predict and Be Pro-Active” Spans CS – sensors, wireless (ad-hoc) networks, embedded systems, stream data management, analytics, … Highly distributed and dynamic system

Why Agents Agents provide a good distributed abstraction in which to create such systems Each entity is independent, can maintain local state/KB Well defined interaction – Communication (e.g. FIPA) Approaches to Argumentation – Trying to resolve conflicts of understanding which are liable to happen Mesh well with, and can leverage, declarative approaches and policies

Some Recent UMBC Efforts DARPA Traumapod ONR Relief Social Media DARPA PbWAN DHS UICDS Underlying technologies developed – MANET management and security – Ontologies and Policy Languages – Social Media Analytics (NER, Community Detection, …) – Streaming Analytics on KBs – Reasoning with uncertain/incomplete information