Dr. Israel Mayk, Research scientist at the US Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM), Fort Monmouth, New Jersey
Date: November 13, 2008  (Thursday)
Time: 7:00pm (light refreshment starts at 6:45 PM), Thursday,
Location: ECEC 202, NJIT

About the Presenter:

Dr. Israel Mayk is an Electronics Engineer/Research Scientist and Technical Manager with the Command and Control Directorate, US Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM), Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) at Fort Monmouth NJ.  He is responsible for research and development of battle command knowledge-based decision architectures.  In particular, he is currently the Chair of the Intelligent Agents sub-IPT of the RDECOM Network IPT, the Technical Manager of several Exploratory Development Programs and of the U.S. Army Technology Objective Program called Tactical Information Technology for Assured NetOps (TITAN).  Dr. Mayk’s R&D efforts support several key Army/CERDEC C2 Programs including Current Force and Future Force Programs of Record.  Since 1976 he has been working on numerous interoperability issues associated with Army, Joint and Coalition tactical data systems.  From 1985 to 1995 Dr. Mayk was a member of the Basic Research Group (BRG) of the C3 Research and Technology Program sponsored by the Joint Directors of Laboratories (JDL), Technical Panel for C3 (TPC3) and chaired the C2 Reference Model (C2RM) Subgroup.  His experience in research, exploratory development and advance development at CERDEC involves research and development of C2 computational environments including mathematical models and efficient algorithms for decision-aids, situation awareness, message and protocol design and simulation, communications networks, spread-spectrum systems and distributed processing architectures. 

Dr. Mayk is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of AFCEA, AUSA, and USNI.  He holds a B.A. degree in physics (1970) from Rutgers University, NJ, a M.Sc. degree in nuclear physics (1973) from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, and an Eng.Sc.D. in electrical engineering (1985) from NJ Institute of Technology.

About the Talk:

In this presentation we’ll provide a brief background on intelligent agent technology and describe the approach, design and initial implementation results obtained from prototyping intelligent agents as part of a suite of battle command services.  These services are currently under development as part of the Tactical Information Technology for Assured Network Operations (TITAN) Army Technology Objective - Development (ATO-D) Program focused on Information Dissemination and Management (ID&M) for Battle Command (BC) Services.  The Program was initiated by the Army in October 2008 leveraging the results of the Army Intelligent Agent Sub-IPT to span and integrate available resources associated with ID&M, Network Management (NM) Information Assurance (IA) technologies.  This talk, however, will be limited to ID&M area.  The objective of TITAN IM&D is to develop a set of core BC Services that will reside with the BC Common Services servers to be fielded as part of the Army Current Force BC systems in support of net-centric BC interoperability and collaboration.  This core set consists of the following BC services: a) OPORD Service, b) Battle Book Service, c) Alert and Warning Service, d) Smart filtering Service, e) Workflow Orchestration Service, f) Initialization and Continuity of Operations Service and g) Product Dissemination Service, The primary approach of this effort is to leverage intelligent Agent Technology and build upon the success of the previous related programs.  TITAN software agents are responsible for the functionality and behavior of TITAN BC Services.  In this paper we will describe four types of computational behaviors associated with Commander’s Critical Information Requirements (CCIR) that were derived in response to general requirements associated with the Military Decision Making Process.  They include area protection, route protection, hotspot recognition and route deviation.

 All Welcome! You need not be a member of IEEE to attend, and there is no charge for admission. 

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