A. Schuler

Affiliation

The Aerospace Corporation, EI Segundo, CA, USA

Topic

Asset Allocation,Communication Links,Decision Support System,Intelligence Agencies,Military Assets,Software Agents,Wide Area Network,Agent Communication,Angular Distance,Application Programming Interface,Broken Links,Categories Of Agents,Central Agent,Central Authority,Collateral Damage,Commercial Off-the-shelf,Communication Scenarios,Destination Node,Discrete Event Simulation,Emergent Behavior,Federation,Ground Nodes,Impact Point,Information Infrastructure,Link Bandwidth,Link Failure,Master Controller,Military System,Mobile Agents,Network Fault,Network Routing,Open Phase,Packet Loss,Pheromone,Problem In Networks,Satellite,Scheduled Events,Simulated Object,Source Node,Surveillance Resources,Tracking System,Types Of Information,Unique Identifier,Unmanned Aerial Vehicles,Weapon Systems,Wireless Link,XML Format,

Biography

Dr. Alfred Schuler is a Senior Project Engineer at the Aerospace Corporation. His interests include the investigation of techniques that meld communications and computer technologies into networked information infrastructures that provide “value added”. Included are software agents representing user interests, agent negotiations on behalf of users, self-organization, and emergence. Dr. Schuler's other current projects deal with aspects of communications/infrastructure technologies and include collaboration, multimedia transport, information assurance through use of PKI (public key infrastructure), and communications architectures. As a private consultant, he was a principal in the design and implementation of several Navy hardware/software systems. Dr. Schuler holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.