DARPA IXO ANTS Program

Complexity and Dynamics Workshop

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, TN 27235

June 27-28, 2002

Agenda

Location: Featheringill Hall 134

Thursday, June 27, 2002
Time Event
08:00-08:30 Workshop Registration/Breakfast
08:30-08:45 Introductory Remarks - Vijay Raghavan (DARPA)
08:45-09:45 ISI demo
09:45-10:00 Break
10:00-11:00 Utah demo
11:00-12:00 CIRL, Oregon demo
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:00 Cornell demo, Hebrew University demo
14:00-15:00 Washington U demo
15:00-15:15 Break
15:15-16:15 Altarum demo
16:15-17:00 Summary discussion
Friday, June 28, 2002
Time Event
08:00-08:30 Breakfast
08:30-10:00

Group discussion on C&D Research topics 

  1. Phase transitions vs. Thresholds

  2. Do they help? (Convergence? Stability?)

  3. Lessons for the Challenge Problems 

  4. Concrete steps in integration

  5. System-of-Systems Negotiation
10:00-10:15 BREAK
10:15-12:00 MAPLANT Solver Code walkthrough (MICANTS Team)

Example solver with datafiles, etc. can be found here. 
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:30 Group discussion continuing
  1. MAPLANT solutions  
  2. SOS Negotiation revisited
  3. Research topics for the future

Other topic: UMass presentation

14:30-15:00 Workshop wrap-up, next steps - Vijay Raghavan (DARPA)

Direct comments concerning this meeting to: Gabor Karsai