1. I-X Technology Applications to Collaborative Emergency Response Collaborative Sensemaking, Planning and Execution via sharing of issues, activity options, constraints and annotations Prof. Austin Tate Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute University of Edinburgh http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/plan/ I-X Technology Applications to Collaborative Emergency Response Collaborative Sensemaking, Planning and Execution via sharing of issues, activity options, constraints and annotations Prof. Austin Tate Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute University of Edinburgh http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/plan/

2. 2 Examples of AIAI’s Collaborative Emergency Response Research  1991-9: Coalition NEO – Non-combatant Evacuation Operations  1994-6: SAR – RAF Search and Rescue Coordination Centre (Pitreavie, UK)  2000-2: CoAX – Coalition Agents eXperiment (4 countries, 30 organisations)  2002-3: CoSAR-TS – Coalition Search and Rescue Task Support  2002-4: CoAKTinG – Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies for e-Response  2004-6: Co-OPR – Collaborative Operations for Personnel Recovery for US JFCOM http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/plan/

3. 3 CoAX – Coalition Agents eXperiment AIAI, BBN, CMU, Dartmouth, DSTO, GITI, Lockheed Martin ATL, NRL, Potomac Inst., U.Maryland, U.Michigan, QinetiQ, UT-Austin, UWF/IHMC Support from AFRL, ARL, Boeing, DRDC, DSTL, ISX, MITRE, MIT Sloan, NWDC, OBJS, Schafer, Stanford, TTCP, USC/ISI, USPACOM http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/coax/ DARPA

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5. 5 Object Services and Consulting, Inc.

6. 6 CoABS Grid

7. 7 CoAX Components DARPA CoABS Grid (GITI, ISX) Agent Frameworks KAoS Agents (IHMC, Boeing) NOMADS Mobile Agents (IHMC) EMAA/CAST Agents (LM-ATL) GMAS (Dartmouth, IHMC, LM-ATL) D’Agents (Dartmouth) eGents (OBJS) Agent Grid Services Task, Process and Event Management (AIAI) Domain Management Services (IHMC, Boeing) Asynchronous Wireless Connectivity (OBJS) Plan Deconfliction (Michigan) Military Systems CAMPS (AFRL,GITI, BBN) MBP (QinetiQ) Decision Desktop (QinetiQ) Situation Viewer (NRL) … Agents on the Grid AODB Agent (LM-ATL) Observer Agents (Dartmouth) eGents E-mail Agents (OBJS) Malicious Agents (IHMC) Web Weather Agent (USC/ISI) Information Agents (BBN) …

8. 8 CoAX Technology Contributions AIAI's I-X Task, Process and Event Panel Technology BBN Technologies MPS - Mixed-Initiative Planning and Interaction Agents, Dynamic Agent Information Coordination Protocols, Airlift Mission Planning System Agent. CMU's Retsina Grid Agent Communications Visualisation and DAML-S Matchmaker. See here for more details. DSTO's Future Operations Centre Analysis Laboratory (FOCAL) and Logistics Planning using the ATTITUDE multi-agent architecture. Dartmouth College's Field-observation System and Mobile Agents for Medical Monitoring GITI/ISX CoABS Program Grid Infrastructure Lockheed Martin ATL's EMAA mobile agent technology, CAST information management agents, and I2AT agent development toolkit Michigan's Multilevel Coordination Agent MIT's Robustness Service NRL's Intelligent Agents for GCCS-M OBJS's eGents E-mail Agents and AgentGram QinetiQ's Decision Desktop and Master Battle Planner Stanford's Market Mechanisms Technology UMD's IMPACT agents for reasoning with probabilistic temporal information UTexas at Austin's Sensible Agent technology - Trust Evaluation and Organization Adaptation USC/ISI's Ariadne Project UWF/IHMC and Boeing's KAoS Technology UWF/IHMC NOMADS Technology

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11. 11 I-X Task Support Tools Process Panel Domain Editor Activity Editor Messenger I-Space Map Tool I-Plan

12. 12 Coalition Search and Rescue Task Support DARPA DAML Program AIAI & IHMC Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute, University of Edinburgh Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola, Florida

13. 13 CoSAR-TS Demo Architecture

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16. Co-OPR Collaborative Operations for Personnel Recovery Collaborative Sensemaking, Planning and Execution via sharing of issues, activity options, constraints and annotations AIAI, University of Edinburgh http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/co-opr/Co-OPR Collaborative Operations for Personnel Recovery Collaborative Sensemaking, Planning and Execution via sharing of issues, activity options, constraints and annotations AIAI, University of Edinburgh http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/co-opr/

17. 17  Links  Links between informal human-oriented outline planning and more structured semi-automated detailed planning  Outer level  Outer level: human relatable and presentable objective statements, sensemaking, advice, multiple options, argumentation and outline plans  Inner level  Inner level: detailed planners, search engines, constraint solvers, analyzers and simulators act in an understandable and controllable way to provide feasibility checks, detailed constraints and guidance  Sharing  Sharing of issues, activity options, constraints and annotations between humans and systems operating at various levels  Context  Context and current environment sensitivity Co-OPR - Illustrating a More Collaborative Planning Framework

18. 18 I-X Multi-Agency Emergency Response Planning, Execution, and Task-Oriented Communications Collaboration and Communication Command Centre Central Authorities Isolated Personnel Emergency Responders

19. 19 Forthcoming Collaborative Emergency Response Research  2006-9: FireGrid Emergency Response in Large Scale Fires in the Built Environment http://firegrid.org  2006-9: OpenKnowledge Semantic Web Technologies for Emergency Response – such and in Forest Fires http://openk.org