Dr. Kerschberg has been a consultant and a subcontractor to Global InfoTek (GITI) through KRM, Inc. on a number of projects.
Global infoTek
Coordinators
The Coordinators Program sponsored by the Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA) focuses on Distributed Agent-based scheduling of complex activities.
KRM has been under contract since February 2005. KRM has worked on the conceptual framework for GITI's Coordinators proposal, lead the effort regarding the Oracle all-knowing centralized scheduling algorithm, as compared to a distributed algorithm, and served as an independent tester for the Coordinator Simulator.
To learn more about the GITI Role in the Coordinators Program please download the paper:
G. Emami, J. Cheng, D. Cornwell, M. Feldhousen, C. Long, V. Malhotra, I. Starnes, L. Kerschberg, A. Brodsky, X. Zhang: ACTIVE: agile coordinator testbed integrated virtual environment. AAMAS 2006: 1580-1587.
Omniseer
OmniSeer Cognitive Framework
KRM was under contract to GITI from October 2002 through August 2004 for the OmniSeer project.
The OmniSeer project was sponsored as part of the Novel Intelligence from Massive Data (NIMD Program of the Intelligence Community's Advanced Research and Development Agency (ARDA ).
KRM worked on the preparation of the OmniSeer proposal, and after GITI won the contract, Dr. Kerschberg was involved in Systems Engineering activities, including the elaboration of the "Cognitive Middleware Layer" of OmniSeer and the community of agents residing at that layer.
For an overview of the OmniSeer project, please download the paper.
The reference for the paper is:
J. Cheng, R. Emami, L. Kerschberg, E. Santos, Jr., Q. Zhao, H. Nguyen, H. Wang, M. Huhns, M. Valtorta, J. Dang, H. Goradia, J. Huang, and S. Xi, "OmniSeer: A Cognitive Framework for User Modeling, Reuse of Prior and Tacit Knowledge, and Collaborative Knowledge Services," presented at Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS-38), Island of Hawaii, 2005.