ITR/NGS: Synthetic Environment for Continuous Experimentation

生物恐怖威胁的研究需要我们在分析人类对袭击反应的能力上有很大的提高，无论是在公民层面（流动性、感染和幸福感），还是在响应者和决策者层面（协调、控制、规划和政策制定）。该项目将使用基于地理的人工和人工合成环境来解决这些问题。将开发人工智能体的位置、移动、感染易感性和健康状态的计算模型。直观的界面将提供给人类代理执行复杂的协调角色。他们的行为将被用来分析生物恐怖袭击如何在人群中传播，以及不同的干预策略如何控制其影响。我们将利用这个平台开展新的创新研究。这些活动的结果还将用于帮助制定、测试、分析和执行公共政策和操作程序。一旦实施，这些模式将得到扩展，以包括多个司法管辖区和多种病原体的反应者之间的协调。该工作的一个重要方面是为太大规模网格计算开发基于代理的可扩展软件架构，并虚拟测试原型技术及其在异构资源可用性环境中的有效性，这些环境需要实时响应和由不同系统组成的异构平台组件，如GPS、无线通信，并在危机情况下启用决策支持。

The study of bio-terror threats require a significant improvement in our capabilities to analyze the human response to an attack, both at the level of the citizens (mobility, infection, and the feeling of well-being) and at the level of responders and policy makers (coordination, control, planning, and policy formulation). This project will address these issues using a geography based synthetic environment with artificial and human agents. Computational models of artificial agents' position, mobility, infection-susceptibility and the state of well-being will be developed. Intuitive interfaces will be provided to human agents to carry out the complex coordination roles. Together, their behaviors will be used to analyze how a bio-terror attack may spread through the population and how its impact might be contained by different intervention strategies. We will use this platform to conduct new and innovative research. The results of such exercises will also be used to help develop, test, analyze, and implement public policies and operating procedures. Once implemented, the models will be extended to include coordination amongst responders in multiple jurisdictions and for multiple pathogens.An important aspect of the work is to develop an agent-based scalable software architecture for tera-scale, grid computing, and to virtually test the prorotype technology and it's effectiveness on heterogeneous resource availability environements requiring real-tim eresponse and heterogeneous platform assemblies comprising of diverse systems, such as GPS, wireless communications, and enabling decisionsupport during crisis situations.