Atria: cooperative agent-based recovery in a communications network

Abstract — Today's dynamic battlefield environment requires rapid reconfiguration and reorganization of warfighter assets, communication links, and computing resources in response to enemy attacks. The extent to which supporting operations can take place autonomously, and thus more rapidly, could be critical to neutralizing future enemy threats. This paper describes a software system developed at The Aerospace Corporation called Automated Threat Response using Intelligent Agents (ATRIA). ATRIA agents detect signals indicating an enemy theater ballistic missile attack and then automatically gather strategic data, generate internal plans, and task surveillance and strike resources to track and destroy the missiles. The agents discover and access data and resources distributed across a dynamic, wide area network. In earlier reported