Resource brokering service: timely and efficient information resource allocation

Daniel J. Van Hook; Magnus Ljungberg; Robert Shaw; Mark Ford; Ethan Aubin; Eric Konieczny; Daniel H. Lee; Samuel T. Brown

doi:10.1117/12.850588

28 April 2010 Resource brokering service: timely and efficient information resource allocation

Daniel J. Van Hook, Magnus Ljungberg, Robert Shaw, Mark Ford, Ethan Aubin, Eric Konieczny, Daniel H. Lee, Samuel T. Brown

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Proceedings Volume 7707, Defense Transformation and Net-Centric Systems 2010; 77070K (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.850588
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2010, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

We address supporting unanticipated users and uses of limited information resources (sensors, databases, weapons - any resource intrinsically tied to digital information) in a timely and efficient fashion. Platform-centric systems often preclude users and uses not identified when the system was developed and deployed. Net-centric approaches, however, can address these problems by allowing services and information to be discovered and accessed at run-time. We have developed a resource brokering service that uses net-centric principles and semantic metadata to enable multi-domain information and resource sharing and support for unanticipated users and uses. The resource brokering service uses federated brokering agents and a modular software component framework for dynamically composing and tasking heterogeneous resources including sensors, data feeds, processors, archived data, networks, and even analysts into resilient, mission-oriented workflows. The resource brokering service is applicable to multiple sense-decide-act military domains including missile defense, space situation awareness, ISR, border protection, and cyber defense. In this paper we present a concept and architecture for resource brokering and describe current applications. Our architecture is aligned with the U.S. DoD's NCES (Net-Centric Enterprise Services).

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Daniel J. Van Hook, Magnus Ljungberg, Robert Shaw, Mark Ford, Ethan Aubin, Eric Konieczny, Daniel H. Lee, and Samuel T. Brown "Resource brokering service: timely and efficient information resource allocation", Proc. SPIE 7707, Defense Transformation and Net-Centric Systems 2010, 77070K (28 April 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.850588

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