A Case Study of the Development and use of a MANA-Based Federation for Studying U.S. Border Operations

Author

Beeker, Emmet R., III ; Page, Ernest H.

Author_Institution

The MITRE Corp., McLean, VA

fYear

2006

fDate

3-6 Dec. 2006

Firstpage

841

Lastpage

847

Abstract

A federation approach is used to expand the geographic extent of MANA (map aware non-uniform automata), a cellular-automaton based agent simulation, in order to support a study of investment strategies for border protection along a portion of the southern U.S. border. The federation is implemented using the Department of Defense (DoD) high level architecture (HLA). Federation performance is optimized using HLA Data Distribution Management (DDM) services and through a bypass of the normal HLA mechanisms for ownership transfer. Analysis of the running federation indicates that overhead due to federation processing is minimal - less than 6% of the total federation runtime (94% of the runtime is due to processing in the MANA simulations)

Keywords

cellular automata; discrete event simulation; government; national security; software agents; MANA-based federation; U.S. border operations; border protection; cellular-automaton based agent simulation; data distribution management services; federation performance optimization; high level architecture; investment strategies; map aware nonuniform automata; ownership transfer; Analytical models; Artificial intelligence; Automata; Computer aided software engineering; Context modeling; Discrete event simulation; Distributed decision making; Investments; Protection; Runtime;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Simulation Conference, 2006. WSC 06. Proceedings of the Winter

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0500-9

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0501-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WSC.2006.323166

Filename

4117690