Resource Brokering Service: Timely and Efficient Information Resource Allocation
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Author(s) • • • • • • •
Van Hook, Daniel J.
Ljungberg, Magnus
Shaw, Robert
Ford, Mark
Aubin, Ethan
Konieczny, Eric
Lee, Daniel H.
Brown, Samuel T.
Date Issued
April 2010
Journal
Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering ; v. 7707
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SPIE
Citation
Van Hook, Daniel J. et al. “Resource brokering service: timely and efficient information resource allocation.” Defense Transformation and Net-Centric Systems 2010. Ed. Raja Suresh. Orlando, Florida, USA: SPIE, 2010. 77070K-12. ©2010 SPIE.
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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).
MIT Department
Lincoln Laboratory
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https://doi.org/10.1117/12.850588