SWIM: An AI-based System for Organisation Management
Brian Drabble · 2013
This paper reports on the development of the Smart ';Vorldlow for ISR Management (SWIM) system which has been designed to enable complex systems, business and software, to be controlled within the workflow management paradigm. The system exploits recent advances within the AI community in reactive control, scheduling and continuous execution. SWIM extends the workflow paradigm to respond to the dynamic and uncertain environments by viewing the control processes themselves as dynamic evolving entities. SWIM is being applied to the domain of Information Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), a highly reactive domain where continual and complex requirements for information acquisition, analysis and distribution must be satisfied within a temporal and resource constrained setting. Similar problems occur in the space domain in the development of missions, science experiments, payload check out, etc. The SWIlVJ system comprises two main components: process manager and the dynamic execution order scheduling system. Details of both of these components are provided in the paper.