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GLOSSARY OF TERMS

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A

AATT – Advanced Aviation Transportation Technologies
ADS-B – Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast, systems in which aircraft, other vehicles and obstacles broadcast messages, on a regular basis, which includes their position, velocity and possibly other information.
AeA – American Electronics Association
AFRL – Air Force Research Laboratory
Agent - ASI’s PreAct contains multiple cooperating intelligent agents that enable its ability to analyze, plan and act.
Agile Software Development Process – ASI is the only CMM-3 rated small business to use the Agile Software Development Process, which increases speed of development while reducing risk and cost.  
ARL – Army Research Laboratory 
ASI – Applied Systems Intelligence, Inc.
AsiDSA – PreAct® Distributed Situational Assessment; continuously updates the multi-agent hierarchical situation models to provide the current state of the environment.
AsiEM – PreAct® Error (Manager) Analyzer; supports development of intelligent error…monitors human errors in complex systems.  This module can assess errors of omission or commission.
AsiInform – PreAct® Information Manager; provides automatic information management features to the user interface.    
ASIPerformer – Constructs applications that execute multiple parallel-situated scripts enabling the system to take action on behalf of user.
AsiPlan – PreAct® Activity Planner; supports construction of dynamic planners to support the Associate in achieving its goals.
AsiSMI – PreAct® Shared Model of Intent – Interpreter that supports large-scale, multi-agent models of activity-based or knowledge structures.  This module assesses the users’ intentions when they are interacting with an Associate.
Associate – A comprehensive intelligent software system, providing full support for active information collection, assessment, planning, plan execution and coordination with multiple humans and other inanimate associates.
Associate System – A system, comprised of a human operator and one or more Associates (above), which attempts to provide complete task coverage within a specific domain by allocating functions to both the human and associate(s).
AUCTIONEER – An ASI project developed for the Air Force Research Laboratory and DARPA.  The project explored decentralized control where a flight of eight UAVs self-organized to distribute tasks among themselves and improve mission performance.
ATC – Air Traffic Control 
ATP – Available to promise
AUVSI – Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International

B

BOM – Bill Of Materials, used in supply chains, an itemized list of items required for a manufactured product.

C

C2 – Command and Control
c2it® – ASI’s Command and Control Information Technology software solution
CAA – Claims Analyst’s Associate
CMM-3 – Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Level 3. Less than 350 businesses in the United States presently hold this distinction.
CNGraph – The PreAct® concept graph library; constructs a real-time dynamic concept graph; represents the state of a system and its environment.
CRO – Chief Risk Officer
CSScript – The PreAct® situated script library; defines the structure for creating situated scripts and sequences of primitive system actions.
CTA – Collaborative Technology Alliance program, funded and directed by the Army Research Laboratory (ARL). The Robotics CTA focuses on the technology required to permit inanimate systems (or sub-systems) to perform in a seemingly human fashion.

D

DARPA – Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DBPM – Dynamic Business Process Management

E

ERM – Enterprise Risk Management
ERP – Enterprise Resource Planning
eValue® – ASI’s collaborative supply chain event management product, enhanced with Available To Promise (ATP) capabilities, developed by ASI.

F

FAQs – Frequently Asked Questions
FCS – Future Combat Systems: a joint-services, networked system of systems (one large system made up of 18 individual systems plus the network and soldier-often referred to as 18 plus one plus one). A soldier, linked to advanced communications platforms and sensors, has access to data that can provide a much more accurate picture of what’s going on around him/her.
FIRST – For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology – The FIRST Robotics Competition is an exciting, multinational competition that teams professionals and young people to solve an engineering design problem in an intense and competitive way.

I

ICAV – Intelligent Control for Automated Vehicles
ICE – Immigration and Customs Enforcement
IKE® – Integrated Knowledge Environment, an ASI software application that provides the developer with the capability to build knowledge bases for PreAct® applications.
INM – Intelligent Network Management
IOM – Intelligent Operator Monitor, providing role-based information delivery, shared mission objectives, shared situation awareness, and coordination between each of the roles in the joint services’ Future Combat Systems (see FCS).

J

JAUS – Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems
J-UCAS – Joint (services) Unmanned Combat Air System Program

O

Object Match Library – PreAct® component that provides base class definitions for symbolic reasoning.
ONR SBIR – Office of Naval Research supports Naval and Marine Corps requirements

P

PA – Pilot’s Associate, an Associate Systems application developed by ASI.
PASS – Personnel Assessment & Screening System, ASI  jointly developed PASS with our premium development partner, SYColeman Corp. to deliver a solution for improving the efficiency and accuracy of background checks. 
PERSEREC – Defense Personnel Security Research Center
PG-Graph – The PreAct® plan and goal graph library; defines the purposeful activities of one or more active agents in an operational system.

S

SBIR – Small Business Innovation Research program, encourages small business bid on project s that research science and technology areas to support the requirements of government agencies.
SCM – Supply Chain Management
SEAD – Suppression of Enemy Air Defense
SMI – Shared Model of Intentions

U

UAV – Unmanned Air Vehicle
UCAV – Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle

W

WIN-T – Warfighter Information Network-Tactical, the backbone of the Army’s Future Combat Systems (FCS).
WMI – Warfighter Machine Interface, a component of the Future Combat Systems.

X

XML – Extensible Markup Language