Plan execution monitoring with distributed intelligent agents for battle command
James P. Allen, Kevin P. Barry, John M. McCormick, Ross A. Paul · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2004
As military tactics evolve toward execution centric operations the ability to analyze vast amounts of mission relevant data is essential to command and control decision making. To maintain operational tempo and achieve information superiority we have developed Vigilant Advisor, a mobile agent-based distributed Plan Execution Monitoring system. It provides military commanders with continuous contingency monitoring tailored to their preferences while overcoming the network bandwidth problem often associated with traditional remote data querying. This paper presents an overview of Plan Execution Monitoring as well as a detailed view of the Vigilant Advisor system including key features and statistical analysis of resource savings provided by its mobile agent-based approach.