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Adaptive management of emerging battlefield networkFountoukidis, Dimitrios P. 03 1900 (has links)
Approved for public release, distribution is unlimited / The management of the battlefield network takes place in a Network Operations Center (NOC). The manager, based on the importance of the managed network, is sometimes required to be present all the time within the physical installations of the NOC. The decisions regard a wide spectrum of network configurations, fault detection and repair, and network performance improvement. Especially in the case of the battlefield network operations these decisions are sometimes so important that can be characterized as critical to the success of the whole military operation. Most of the times, the response time is so restricted that exceeds the mean physical human response limits. An automated response that also carries the characteristics of human intelligence is needed to overcome the restrictions the human nature of an administrator imposes. The research will establish the proper computer network management architecture for an adaptive network. This architecture will enhance the capabilities of network management and in terms of cost and efficiency. / Lieutenant Commander, Hellenic Navy
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[en] CUBIMED: A FRAMEWORK FOR THE CREATION OF UBIQUITOUS MEDICAL ASSISTANCE APPLICATIONS BASED ON COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARE AGENTS / [pt] CUBIMED: UM FRAMEWORK PARA A CRIAÇÃO DE APLICAÇÕES DE ASSISTÊNCIA MÉDICA UBÍQUA BASEADO EM AGENTES DE SOFTWARE COLABORATIVOSARIEL ESCOBAR ENDARA 11 April 2016 (has links)
[pt] A área da saúde precisa lidar com diversos problemas relacionados a
questões de infraestrutura, falta de pessoal qualificado e grande número de
pacientes. Como solução para problemas desta natureza surgiu o u-Healthcare,
uma aplicação dos conceitos de Computação Ubíqua (UbiComp) na área da
assistência médica. u-Healthcare permite a supervisão da saúde a qualquer
tempo e a qualquer lugar, a partir de dispositivos eletrônicos conectados à
internet. Entretanto, a ampliação da supervisão da saúde para o entorno ubíquo
não pode ser feita com protocolos e procedimentos clínicos atualmente
utilizados, já que essa abordagem aumentaria drasticamente o consumo de
tempo e recursos. Por esse motivo, a construção de aplicações para
fornecimento de serviços se saúde pode apoiar-se em áreas de pesquisa de
Sistemas Multi-Agente (SMA) e Trabalho Cooperativo Auxiliado por Computador
(TCAC). Nesse sentido, SMA é utilizado para automatização de processos,
através do uso das propriedades dos agentes de software. Em contrapartida,
TCAC permite estabelecer um modelo de cooperação entre os participantes de
uma determinada aplicação. Com base nestes aspectos, neste trabalho propõese
a modelagem e desenvolvimento de um framework que auxilie a construção
de aplicações voltadas para u-Healthcare, baseadas em conceitos de SMA e
TCAC. Para ilustrar a utilização do framework, são apresentados dois cenários
de uso. O primeiro cenário corresponde a um sistema de monitoramento fetal,
que realiza a detecção precoce de anormalidades no feto. O segundo cenário,
por sua vez, consiste em um assistente de administração de medicamentos, que
permite ajudar ao médico no controle de medicamentos que usam seus
pacientes. / [en] The health area needs to deal with various problems related to issues of
infrastructure, lack of qualified personnel and a large number of patients. As a
solution to problems of this nature, u-Healthcare was created as an application of
the concepts of Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) in the area of health care. u-
Healthcare allows health monitoring at any time and place from electronic
devices connected to the Internet. However, the expansion of health monitoring
for an ubiquitous environment cannot be performed with protocols and
procedures currently used, since this approach would drastically increase the
consumption of time and resources. For that reason, the development of tools to
provide health services can be supported in research areas such as Multi-Agent
System (MAS) and Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). In that
sense, MAS can be used to automate processes through the properties of
software agents. On the other hand CSCW gives the possibility of establishing a
model of cooperation among the participants on the application. Based on these
aspects, this work proposes the modeling and development of a framework
capable of providing support and help on the construction of dedicated u-
Healthcare applications which should be based on the concepts of MAS and
CSCW. To illustrate the use of the framework, there are presented two scenarios
of use. The first scenario corresponds to a fetal monitoring system, which allows
early detection of fetal abnormalities. The second scenario consists of a drug
administration assistant, which allows the doctor to control drug use by his
patients.
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