Agent-Supported Mission Operations Teamwork

This slide presentation reviews the development of software agents to support of mission operations teamwork. The goals of the work was to make automation by agents easy to use, supervise and direct, manage information and communication to decrease distraction, interruptions, workload and errors, reduce mission impact of off-nominal situations and increase morale and decrease turnover. The accomplishments or the project are: 1. Collaborative agents - mixed initiative and creation of instructions for mediating agent 2. Methods for prototyping, evaluating and evolving socio-technical systems 3. Technology infusion: teamwork tools in mISSIons 4. Demonstrations in simulation testbed An example of the use of agent is given, the use of an agent to monitor a N2 tank leak. An incomplete instruction to the agent is handled with mediating assistants, or Intelligent Briefing and Response Assistant (IBRA). The IBRA Engine also watches data stream for triggers and executes Act-Whenever actions. There is also a Briefing and Response Instruction (BRI) which is easy for a discipline specialist to create through a BRI editor

Towards Ontology-based SQA Recommender for Agile Software Development

Agility is heavily dependent on tacit knowledge, skilled and motivated employees, and frequent communications. Although, the Agile Manifesto claims fast and light software development process while maintaining high quality, it is however not very clear how current agile practices and methods attain quality under time pressure and unstable requirements. In this paper, we present an ontological approach for process-driven Quality Assurance support for agile software development. Challenges related to the role of Quality Assurance in agile projects are addressed by developing a process-driven recommender that provides tailored resources to user’s queries. The proposed ontological model embeds both conceptual and operational SQA knowledge about software processes and their requirements, including quality attributes, SQA measurements, SQA metrics and related SQA techniques and procedures

Mobile Bookstore (m-Bookstore)

Mobile technologies and computing are evolving and expanding each day, demanding and creating a much more ubiquitous computing environment. This research project proposes the development and implementation of the Mobile Bookstore - a mobile solution for bookstore businesses. This report presents the final research and study of the development of the Mobile Bookstore as a solution to the problem statements stated in the project proposal as well as in this report, which is considered as the main objective of the study. The Mobile Bookstore will address to the four problem statements, which are the geographical problems, the advancing mobile technologies, ubiquitous demands in computing and large bookstore information requests. These objectives help in answering the question to why this research is done and why would we need a mobile bookstore? With the mobile bookstore, companies can reach out to more customers, anywhere and everywhere using mobile devices. This concept allows for a more ubiquitous business and computing. Major bookstores need to compete and to be on top, implementing the latest technologies to serve its customers, and the mobile technology is one that should be taken advantage of. Browsing the large database of a bookstore can be time-consuming and difficult using expensive kiosks that come in limited numbers. A wireless environment can create wireless networks allowing those with mobile devices to browse through the bookstore database with ease. With this report, the basis for the research of this project will be underlined in detail, including the technologies, means, methods and study of recent researches related to the study. The result of this research project will be the software solution, a system (the Mobile Bookstore), which consists of two modules: the outdoor WAPbased module and the indoor Wireless Network module

Performance Measuring Tool for Data Mining Techniques in Intrusion Detection System

The research project is about to develop a performance measurement tool for Data Mining (OM) techniques in Intrusion Detection System (IDS). Basically, IDS is a network security system that is used to detect cyber attacks intrusion. By applying the Data Mining technique it might improve its accuracy as well as its efficiency in intrusion detection process especially in a large and fast network. However, there are various kinds of techniques in OM that can be used to enhance the intrusion detection process in IDS such as K-mean clustering, Support Vector Machine (SVM), Self Organizing Maps (SOM), Neural Networks, etc. Therefore, a performance measurement is required in order determine the best OM technique to be used depending on the network environment and the type of the IDS used. The performance measurement takes place at the final stage of the Knowledge Data Discovery (KDD) process which a step by step procedure in implementing the DM techniques. With the help of this new tool, it can reduce the human intervention in performance measurement process as much as possible by replacing the manual tasks with the automated approach. As a result, errors due to human conducts can be reduced. This is because a slight of error might affect the overall performance results measured. The final results are so important that it is to be used in decision making of the implementation of OM technique in IDS. The tool is comprised of three main modules: confusion matrix analysis, calculation of the detection rates and the false alarm rates, and generating the ROC curves as the final result

Performance Measuring Tool for Data Mining Techniques in Intrusion Detection System

The research project is about to develop a performance measurement tool for Data Mining (OM) techniques in Intrusion Detection System (IDS). Basically, IDS is a network security system that is used to detect cyber attacks intrusion. By applying the Data Mining technique it might improve its accuracy as well as its efficiency in intrusion detection process especially in a large and fast network. However, there are various kinds of techniques in OM that can be used to enhance the intrusion detection process in IDS such as K-mean clustering, Support Vector Machine (SVM), Self Organizing Maps (SOM), Neural Networks, etc. Therefore, a performance measurement is required in order determine the best OM technique to be used depending on the network environment and the type of the IDS used. The performance measurement takes place at the final stage of the Knowledge Data Discovery (KDD) process which a step by step procedure in implementing the DM techniques. With the help of this new tool, it can reduce the human intervention in performance measurement process as much as possible by replacing the manual tasks with the automated approach. As a result, errors due to human conducts can be reduced. This is because a slight of error might affect the overall performance results measured. The final results are so important that it is to be used in decision making of the implementation of OM technique in IDS. The tool is comprised of three main modules: confusion matrix analysis, calculation of the detection rates and the false alarm rates, and generating the ROC curves as the final result

Mobile Bookstore (m-Bookstore)

Mobile technologies and computing are evolving and expanding each day, demanding and creating a much more ubiquitous computing environment. This research project proposes the development and implementation of the Mobile Bookstore - a mobile solution for bookstore businesses. This report presents the final research and study of the development of the Mobile Bookstore as a solution to the problem statements stated in the project proposal as well as in this report, which is considered as the main objective of the study. The Mobile Bookstore will address to the four problem statements, which are the geographical problems, the advancing mobile technologies, ubiquitous demands in computing and large bookstore information requests. These objectives help in answering the question to why this research is done and why would we need a mobile bookstore? With the mobile bookstore, companies can reach out to more customers, anywhere and everywhere using mobile devices. This concept allows for a more ubiquitous business and computing. Major bookstores need to compete and to be on top, implementing the latest technologies to serve its customers, and the mobile technology is one that should be taken advantage of. Browsing the large database of a bookstore can be time-consuming and difficult using expensive kiosks that come in limited numbers. A wireless environment can create wireless networks allowing those with mobile devices to browse through the bookstore database with ease. With this report, the basis for the research of this project will be underlined in detail, including the technologies, means, methods and study of recent researches related to the study. The result of this research project will be the software solution, a system (the Mobile Bookstore), which consists of two modules: the outdoor WAPbased module and the indoor Wireless Network module