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This paper discusses the relevance of agent-based and service-based approaches to the technical and organizational transformation sought by modern armed forces. It describes the rationale for using these approaches, potential benefits, and challenges — which are both organizational and technical. It then identifies gaps and areas for research including service discovery, support for a wide range of interaction patterns, and operation over low-bandwidth networks.
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Allsopp, D.N. (2006). Armed Services: Challenges for Military Distributed Systems. In: Thompson, S.G., Ghanea-Hercock, R. (eds) Defence Applications of Multi-Agent Systems. DAMAS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3890. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11683704_11
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