Criticality-Sensitive Coordination (CSC)
The CSC project is sponsored by the DARPA COORDINATORS Program (Dr. Tom Wagner, Program Manager). The objective is to create distributed intelligent software systems that will help fielded units adapt their mission plans as the situation around them changes and impacts their plans. Intelligent software Coordinators do this by reasoning about the tasks assigned to a given unit, the task timings, how the tasks interact with those of other units, and by evaluating possible changes such as changing task timings, task assignments, or selecting from pre-planned contingencies.
The CSC approach to coordination is “dynamic partial centralization”. It considers real-time multi-agent coordination in a dynamic and uncertain domain addressing both distributed state information and partial knowledge of the world. The approach assigns agents to monitor portions of the problem structure for which they aggregate and propagate appropriate profiles which compactly represent relevant information used for policy modification. This approach shows promises as an alternate and potentially superior technique with respect to current decision-theoretic and scheduling approaches.
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