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Data mediation is an essential component in the Modeling and Simulation field (M&S). Managing multiple...
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A Translation Engine in Support of Context-Level Interoperability (with Kym J. Pohl), Intelligent Decision Technologies. Special Issue: Ontology Driven Interoperability for Agile Applications using Information Systems: Requirements and Applications for Agent Mediated Decision Support (2008)
The support of context-level interoperability demands increasing attention in today’s arena of semantics-oriented decision-support systems....
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To treat a multi-storey building as a large, inflatable container forces the architect to consider...
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Recently, over a three-year period, a new concept of multi-storey building construction based on pneumatic...
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Extension of the principles of pneumatic construction to include multistory buildings is discussed by Peter...
Books
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The design of buildings and the broader field of environmental design are often described as...
Chapters in Books
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The purpose of this chapter is to trace the evolution of intelligent software from data-centric...
Conference Proceedings
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This paper proposes the construction of a Conceptual Model as a logical step prior to...
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The purpose of this paper is to provide an introduction to the OWL Web ontology...
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This paper draws attention to the increasing need for agile and adaptive software environments that...
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Computers do not have the equivalent of a human cognitive system and therefore store data...
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Over the past decade the Collaborative Agent Design Research Center (CADRC) at California Polytechnic State...
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Accurate and expressive representation of the subject matter over which a context-oriented, decision-support system operates...
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Similarity Assessment Techniques (with Michael A. Zang, Adam Gray, and Michael Hobbs), Proceedings of InterSymp-2008: The 20th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics: Baden-Baden, Germany (2008)
This paper serves as a layman’s introduction to similarity assessment techniques, their distinction from contemporary...
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This paper examines the driving and opposing forces that are governing the current paradigm shift...
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ICODES: A Multi-Agent System in Practice, Proceedings of InterSymp-2008: The 20th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics: Baden-Baden, Germany (2008)
This paper describes the Integrated Computerized Deployment System (ICODES) from both an architectural and evolutionary...
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Enabling the Interoperability of Large-Scale Legacy Systems (with Kalyan Moy Gupta, Michael A. Zang, Adam Gray, David W. Aha, and Joe Kriege), Proceedings of the Twentieth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (2007)
Legacy system data models can interoperate only if their syntactic and semantic differences are resolved....
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For the past 20 years commercial corporations and government agencies have suffered under the limitations...
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Alternative Paths to Intelligent Systems, Proceedings of InterSymp-2007: The 19th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics: Baden-Baden, Germany (2007)
This paper examines the three prevalent approaches to Artificial Intelligence (AI), namely symbolic reasoning systems,...
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Enhancing the Face of Service-Oriented Capabilities (with Kym J. Pohl), Proceedings of InterSymp-2007: The 19th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics: Baden-Baden, Germany (2007)
With today’s focus toward discoverable web services, Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) are becoming increasingly prevalent. To...
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The purpose of this paper is to present concepts and implementation principles related to the...
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A very powerful new type of information systems technology is rapidly emerging, driven by government...
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Tabu Search for Optimization of Military Supply Distribution (with Ben Weber and Brett Bojduj), Proceedings of InterSymp-2006: The 18th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics: Baden-Baden, Germany (2006)
The dynamic and non-hierarchical nature of the military domain presents a challenge for traditional supply...
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Elements of Human Decision-Making, Proceedings of InterSymp-2006: The 18th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics: Baden-Baden, Germany (2006)
The purpose of this paper is to present some understandings of the human problem-solving activity...
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TRANSWAY®: Planning with the Tabu Search Algorithm (with Joshua Nibecker, Dennis Taylor, Robert Chambers, Harmony Larsen, Ken Cudworth, Clay Warren, and Mark Porczak), Proceedings of InterSymp-2006: The 18th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics: Baden-Baden, Germany (2006)
Military deployment and distribution responsibilities call for intelligent collaborative tools in support of strategic and...
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Accurate and expressive representation of the subject matter over which a context-oriented, decision-support system operates...
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Goods Movement Security: An Information Technology Problem, Proceedings of InterSymp-2005: The 17th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics: Baden-Baden, Germany (2005)
This paper discusses the security problems associated with the movement of goods across international in-land...
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An emerging issue in the world of context-centric software-based decision-support is the need for potentially...
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In my introduction to this year’s conference I will address six questions that I believe...
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With the objective of defining the interoperability theme of this year’s conference it is the...
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In August of 1998 the Collaborative Agent Design Research Center (CADRC) of the California Polytechnic...
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Over the past several years the papers in this annual series of symposia have increasingly...
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The purpose of this paper is to trace the evolution of intelligent software from data-centric...
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Split Knowledge Level Modeling (with Michael A. Zang), Proceedings of the 19th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence: San Jose, CA (2003)
Traditional approaches to building intelligent information systems employ an object model to define a representational...
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In San Luis Obispo we have seventy-seven SEAWAY systems which are being prepared for fielding,...
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In August of 1998 the Collaborative Agent Design Research Center (CADRC) of the California Polytechnic...
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The papers included in these pre-conference proceedings reflect the increasing focus on the utilization of...
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This paper addresses the expectations, organizational implications, and information processing requirements, of the emerging knowledge...
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The Knowledge Level Approach To Intelligent Information System Design (with Michael A. Zang), Proceedings of InterSymp-2003: The 15th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics: Baden-Baden, Germany (2003)
Traditional approaches to building intelligent information systems employ an ontology to define a representational structure...
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TEGRID: Demonstration of a Semantic Web Environment (with Steven Gollery), Proceedings of InterSymp-2003: The 15th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics: Baden-Baden, Germany (2003)
Over the past several years there has been an increasing recognition of the shortcomings of...
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This paper addresses the human aspects of change at a time when the rapid wide-spread...
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ICODES: A Ship Load-Planning System (with Stephen Goodman), 2003 Proceedings of the 13th International Ship Control Systems Symposium (SCSS): Orlando, FL (2003)
The Integrated Computerized Deployment System (ICODES) is a logistic software application of ship load-planning tools...
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SILS (Shipboard Integration of Logistics Systems) is an umbrella program initiated and sponsored by Dr....
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Data, Information, and Knowledge in the Context of SILS (with Michael A. Zang), Proceedings of the 2002 ONR Workshop on Collaborative Decision-Support Systems: Quantico, VA (2002)
Data, information, and knowledge are becoming increasingly common terms in the literature of the software...
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In August of 1998 the Collaborative Agent Design Research Center (CADRC) of the California Polytechnic...
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There are many sources of on-line information available to those responsible for making decisions in...
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The TEGRID Semantic Web Application (with Steven Gollery), Proceedings of the 2002 ONR Decision-Support Workshop Series: Transformation... (2002)
Over the past several years there has been an increasing recognition of the shortcomings of...
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Context Building Information-Centric Decision-Support Systems (with Steven J. Gollery), Proceedings of InterSymp-2002: The 14th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics: Baden-Baden, Germany (2002)
As the volume of data and human-centered information available to decision-makers continues to increase at...
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This paper attempts to explore the behavioral characteristics of human beings from a point of...
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For the past 20 years the US military services have suffered under the limitations of...
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In August of 1998 the Collaborative Agent Design Research Center (CADRC) of the California Polytechnic...
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In August of 1998 the Collaborative Agent Design Research Center (CADRC) of the California Polytechnic...
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Agent-based, decision-support systems provide human decision-makers with a means of solving complex problems through collaboration...
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IMMACCS: An Experimental Multi-Agent C2 System (with Anthony A. Wood and Kym Jason Pohl), Proceedings of the 5th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium: Canberra, Australia (2000)
The Integrated Marine Multi-Agent Command and Control System (IMMACCS) is a multi-agent, distributed software system,...
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Adapting to the Information Age, Proceedings of InterSymp-2000: The 12th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics: Baden-Baden, Germany (2000)
This paper draws attention to the profound changes that human civilization is experiencing as it...
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An Inference Engine-Based Subscription Service (with Kym J. Pohl), Proceedings of InterSymp-2000: The 12th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics: Baden-Baden, Germany (2000)
A Distributed Network Architecture (DNA) forms the basis of many decision-support systems available today. Such...
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The Decision Support Workshop of May 2-4, 2000 held in San Luis Obispo, Cal., was...
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IMMACCS: A Military Decision-Support System (with Anthony A. Wood, Kym Jason Pohl, and Arthur J. Chapman), DARPA-JFACC 1999 Symposium on Advances in Enterprise Control: San Diego, CA (1999)
The Integrated Marine Multi-Agent Command and Control System (IMMACCS) is a multi-agent, distributed system, designed...
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This paper assumes that the world we live in consists of many interwoven complex adaptive...
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Ten years ago the CAD Research Center at California Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo,...
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ISMIS: A Military Transportation Decision-Support Framework (with Stephen Goodman), Proceedings of InterSymp-1999: The 11th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics: Baden-Baden, Germany (1999)
This paper discusses the challenges that the Information Revolution poses to transportation planning, execution and...
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Human beings are inquisitive creatures who seek explanations for all that they observe and experience...
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The rationale of the Workshop rests on some very simple observations. It is well known...
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Not unlike King Arthur relying on the infamous Round Table as the setting for consultation...
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Collaborative Decision Support Systems for Facility Management (with Arthur J. Chapman), Proceedings of InterSymp-1998: The 10th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics: Baden-Baden, Germany (1998)
Agent-based collaborative decision support is a methodology of utilizing domain specific intelligent systems, interacting in...
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The Future of Computing: Cyberspace, Proceedings of InterSymp-1998: The 10th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics: Baden-Baden, Germany (1998)
This paper traces trends in the technological advances of computer and communication systems and examines...
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The design of useful human-computer collaborative decision-support systems requires some understanding of the behavioral and...
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KOALA: An Object-Agent Design System (with Kym J. Pohl), Proceedings of InterSymp-1996: The 8th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics: Baden-Baden, Germany (1996)
This paper describes KOALA, a design system with primary focus on the predesign stage of...
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ICDM: Integrated Cooperative Decision Making - in Practice (with Leonard Myers), Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence: New Orleans, LA (1994)
Multi-agent systems provide an attractive architecture for the implementation of complex systems. Much of the...
Patents
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A solar heat collection system is provided by utilizing a line-focusing device that is effectively...
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A tracking three-dimensional solar energy concentrator is provided by a stretched aluminized polymeric membrane supported...
Technical Reports
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TRANSWAY® (Integrated Computerized Deployment System) Technical and Operational Description (with Joshua Nibecker, Harmony Larsen, Shawn Pan, Clay Warren, Robert Chambers, Dennis Taylor, Ben Weber, James Delos Reyes, Craig Maas, and Mark Porczak), CDM Technical Report: CDM-21-07 (2007)
The TRANSWAY® software application is an adaptive, ontology-based toolset with collaborative agents, designed to assist...
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ICODES (Integrated Computerized Deployment System) Technical and Operational Description (with Cesar Diaz, Billy Waiters, Jerry Pickard, Jason Naylor, Steven Gollery, Patrick McGraw, Michael Huffman, John Fanshier, Matt Parrott, Steve O'Driscoll-Packer, Boone Pendergrast, and Evan Sylvester), CDM Technical Report: CDM-20-06 (2006)
Over the past decade CDM Technologies, Inc. (CDM) in conjunction with the Collaborative Agent Design...
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The TIRAC™ Development Toolkit: Technical Description (with Russell Leighton, Lakshmi Vempati, Alan Davis, and Mark Porczak), CDM Technical Report: CDM-19-05 (2005)
This report provides a technical description of the Toolkit for Information Representation and Agent Collaboration...
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The ICDM Development Toolkit: Technical Description (with Russell Leighton, Lakshmi Vempati, Alan Davis, and Mark Porczak), CDM Technical Report: CDM-18-04 (2004)
This report provides a technical description of the Integrated Cooperative Decision-Making (ICDM) software toolkit for...
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The TIRAC™ Development Toolkit: Purpose and Overview (with Kym Jason Pohl, Russell Leighton, Michael Zang, Steven Gollery, and Mark Porczak), CDM Technical Report: CDM-17-04 (2004)
This report provides an overview description of the Toolkit for Information Representation and Agent Collaboration...
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Each organization of more than a few persons generates a number of documents containing information...
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The ICDM Development Toolkit: Purpose and Overview (with Kym Jason Pohl, Russell Leighton, Michael Zang, Steven Gollery, and Mark Porczak), CDM Technical Report: CDM-16-04 (2004)
This report provides an overview description of the Integrated Cooperative Decision-Making (ICDM) software toolkit for...
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This report describes work performed by CDM Technologies Inc. on subcontract to ManTech Advanced Systems...
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This report describes work performed by the Collaborative Agent Design Research Center (CADRC) over the...
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IMMACCS: A Multi-Agent Decision-Support System (with Mark Porczak, Kym Jason Pohl, Russell Leighton, Hisham Assal, Alan Davis, Lakshmi Vempati, and Anthony Wood), Design Institute Report: CADRU-14-01 (2001)
This report describes work performed by the Collaborative Agent Design Research Center for the US...
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Transition From Data to Information, Collaborative Agent Design Research Center Technical Report - RESU72 (2001)
It is often lamented that we human beings are suffering from an information overload. This...
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This report describes work performed by CDM Technologies Inc. in conjunction with the Collaborative Agent...