Object Services and Consulting, Inc.

Projects

• DARPA TTO Ultra*Log:  Msg*Log.  This contract will extend the DARPA Cougaar/ALP logistics agent architecture with new message transports and associated policy management.
• DARPA ITO DASADA:  Software Surveyor.  This project is building software gauges to profile the configuration and behavior of large component-based systems as deployed in a complex environment.  The gauges will be used to determine whether the system is behaving as designed, whether a proposed system reconfiguration is safe and effective, and for debugging purposes.
• DARPA ITO CoABS:  Agility:  Agent -Ility Architecture.  This contract developed an agent reference architecture and instantiated three component agent subsystems:  WebTrader (a trader based on web search engines), AgentGram (menu-based natural language interfaces), and eGents (agents that communicate via email).  Current work is focused on technology integration experiments.
• DARPA ITO EDCS:  Survivability in Object Services Architectures (OSAs). This contract developed models of static OSA composition and dynamic OSA evolution leading to a change management object service specification and prototype tools and mechanisms to reify the software evolution model.
• DARPA ITO:  Scaling Object Services Architectures (OSA) to the Internet.  This contract developed technology to insure that OSA architectures like that of OMG are scaleable and can interoperate with Web technologies.  Its main contribution was an intermediary architecture that used a cascade of proxies to insert new behaviors into web-based systems.
• DARPA Advanced Information Technology Services (AITS) Architecture.  We were part of a review team for this effort, which developed a next-generation command and control software architecture into which major DARPA application and technology programs fit.
• MCC Object Infrastructure Project.  We provided software architecture consulting for the MCC OIP project, which developed extensions to object services architectures to modularly add non-functional properties related to security and fault tolerance.
• DARPA National Industrial Information Infrastructure Protocols Consortium.   We provided software architecture consulting for the NIIIP Consortium which developed technology for supporting industrial virtual enterprises and provided technology transfer to standards groups including OMG, WfMC, and STEP.

Reports

• OBJS Technical Reports and Publications

Standards

• OMG, OMG Agent SIG, OMG Internet SIG, W3C, FIPA, ODMG, NCITS H7, OODB Task Group

Workshops

• OMG-DARPA Workshop on Compositional Software Architectures, Monterey, 1998
• W3C-OMG Workshop on Distributed Objects and Mobile Code, Boston, 1996

People

• Steve Ford, Craig Thompson, David Wells

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