Co AKTin G IX Process Panels ISpace IMe

“Co. AKTin. G – I-X Process Panels I-Space: I-Me, I-Room, I-World I-Tools: I-DE, I-Think, I-Plan, I-AM” AIAI, University of Edinburgh www. aiai. ed. ac. uk/project/ix/ http: //i-x. info Austin Tate (PI); AIAI, University of Edinburgh; a. tate@ed. ac. uk Jessica Chen-Burger; AIAI; University of Edinburgh; jessicac@aiai. ed. ac. uk Stephen Potter; AIAI; University of Edinburgh; stephenp@aiai. ed. ac. uk Associates Jeff Dalton; AIAI, University of Edinburgh; j. dalton@ed. ac. uk John Levine; AIAI, University of Edinburgh; j. levine@ed. ac. uk Jussi Stader; AIAI, University of Edinburgh; j. stader@ed. ac. uk Students: Natasha Lino, Clauirton Siebra 1

Aim: Workflow and Messaging “Catch All” • • Can take ANY requirement to: — Handle an issue — Perform an activity — Add a constraint Deals with these via: — Manual activity — Internal capabilities — External capabilities — Reroute or delegate to other panels or agents — Plan and execute a composite of these capabilities Receives reports and interprets them to: — Understand current status of issues, activities and constraints — Understand current world state, especially status of process products — Help user control the situation Copes with partial knowledge 2

Approach: I-X Process Panels • • • To explore task driven cooperation via “issue handling”, “activity performance” and “constraint management” using shared models of activity and the artifacts involved. These shared models use the <I-N-OVA> constraint ontology for activity and the more general <I-N-CA> constraint model for synthesized artifacts — <I-N-OVA> & <I-N-CA> - Issues, Nodes, Constraints and Annotations Provision of a modular task and process management facility on the Co. ABS Grid and other communications mechanisms including: — issue handling — workflow and coordination — constraint management — multi-modal visualization/presentation — respect of agent organizational structures for tasking and authority management — consideration of multiple cooperative agent domains and workspaces Provision of Generic Co. ABS Grid Task and Process Management facilities through I-X Process Panels (I-P 2) and related Decision Support (I-Think), Planning (I-Plan) and Domain/Process Editing (I-DE) tools 3

Co. AX Process Panels: Coalition Agents e. Xperiment (Co. AX) DARPA Co. ABS Grid 4

I-X Process Panels 5

I-X Components for Co. AKTin. G • • I-Space (part focus of Co. AKTin. G) — Distributed Virtual Organisation and Contextualisation I-Me (Co. ABS) — Personal Panels I-Room (focus of Co. AKTin. G) — Group, Team or Function Panels I-World (part of COAKTin. G) — Environment within which I-Spaces can be created. I-AM (Co. ABS) — Augmented Messaging Tool I-DE (Co. ABS) — Domain and Process Library Editing and Management I-Think, I-Plan and I-Tell (To be funded) — Situation Analysis and Decision Support Tool — Embedded Knowledge Based Planning, Execution and Plan Repair/Recovery Technology — Multi-lingual, multi-modal Panel Interfaces 6