Advances in technology have made it ever easier to collect and store data.  While the amount of data has increased tremendously, data collection is often opportunistic: There is only limited control over what, when, and how much data is collected, leading to inconsistency and fragmentary and uneven coverage.  In addition, the connections one might...

Advances in technology have made it ever easier to collect and store data.  While the amount of data has increased tremendously, data collection is often opportunistic: There is only limited control over what, when, and how much data is collected, leading to inconsistency and fragmentary and uneven coverage.  In addition, the connections one might seek from the data are almost always non-deterministic and uncertain. Traditional statistical and logical analyses are inadequate in many of these situations. IHMC researchers James Allen, Greg Dubbin, Clark Glymour and Choh Man Teng work on a...

IHMC’s has pioneered the notion of Agile Computing – an approach to creating distributed networked systems that are adaptive, resilient, and opportunistic. Research in this area has ranged from intelligent network transport protocols to novel distributed coordination algorithms. Much of this research has been in support of austere networking environments such as disaster recovery...

IHMC’s has pioneered the notion of Agile Computing – an approach to creating distributed networked systems that are adaptive, resilient, and opportunistic. Research in this area has ranged from intelligent network transport protocols to novel distributed coordination algorithms. Much of this research has been in support of austere networking environments such as disaster recovery and tactical military networks. Exploiting research in intelligent systems and software agents contribute significantly to enhance performance of the overall system. At IHMC, this research is led by Niranjan Suri. Research in software agents and mobile agents were the foundation...

Future infrastructures will be adaptive to comply with security policies established at the time of deployment and to allow systems to autonomously learn, by example, about acceptable changes in configuration and applications. Policies and trust inferences will be based on distributed similarity estimates within hierarchical functional groups which are autonomously formed as nodes exchange...

Future infrastructures will be adaptive to comply with security policies established at the time of deployment and to allow systems to autonomously learn, by example, about acceptable changes in configuration and applications. Policies and trust inferences will be based on distributed similarity estimates within hierarchical functional groups which are autonomously formed as nodes exchange information about their configuration and state. These self-regulating and self-healing infrastructures will provide the much needed flexibility and robustness to enable system security and information assurance capabilities for future military and civilian tactical infrastructures. To realize this vision, IHMC research scientists...