360 Degree Apppraisal of an Agent Application
Simon Goss
Air Operations Division, DSTO AMRL
Friday, 29th September 2000
0930 - 1100
Conference Room
CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences
Ground Floor, 723 Swanston Street, Melbourne.
Abstract:
The focus in agent technologist forums lies in architectures and communications
protocols. This talk takes a project focus. Agents were used
as representations of human expertise in large scale constructive simulation
of maritime patrol air missions.
Operations analysts support a client by performing studies with a model.
Software engineers and analysts constructed the model. Clients were
consulted as experts in the knowledge engineering and requirements capture
activities. Clients became users in an opportunistic reuse of the
Operations Research model and visualisation interface as a tool for the
exploration of procedures. Systems development and system use were
also mechanisms of creating dialogue and relationships between the analysts
and model builders, and the analysts and clients. Dialog and intermediate
knowledge artefacts (transcripts of interview, URL diagrams, dMARS plans,
etc) are the means of knowledge level reuse across a programme of related
projects in an organisation.
Biosketch:
Dr Simon Goss is Acting Head of Air Operational Analysis at the Air Operations
Division, Aeronautical and Maritime Research Laboratories, DSTO.
He recently spent a year working with the Artificial Intelligence Group
at the Department of Psychology, University of Nottingham, in 1998.
His interests include Knowledge Acquisition, Agent-Oriented Simulation
and guitar acquisition and operation.