Distributed Artificial Intelligence And The HLA : Bridging The Gap Lance

The fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and simulation have shared close ties since their inception. Simulations have often served as theoretical test-beds for evaluating various AI algorithms, many of which have later served to enable “intelligent” control of autonomous entities within various simulations. However, as AI and simulation have extended into the domain of parallel processing, yielding distributed AI (DAI) and distributed simulation respectively, this close relationship seems to have faltered. My PhD research seeks to identify and ideally overcome the factors constraining the use of DAI within the High Level Architecture (HLA), laying the ground-work for the practical use of DAI as a decoupled, flexible service to HLA simulations. This paper provides a brief summary of the research project; examining the issues and constraining factors discovered, the proposed solution, and the findings and results gathered thus far.