Welcome:


Who We Are
Cougaar Software, Inc. is an Intelligent Decision Support company. We provide technologies for developers, and solutions for customers, to create next generation intelligent decision support solutions for today's toughest business problems. We use a framework of intelligent cognitive agents, augmented with various optimization and reasoning technologies, to form advanced distributed solutions that are secure, scalable and highly automated.

Our flagship product, ActiveEdge®, is a full featured development platform for creating distributed, intelligent decision support solutions. We provide design, development and integration services for ActiveEdge and Open Source Cougaar, as well as training and technical support. Our typical intelligent decision support solution addresses large, complex problems with significant amounts of data which must be reasoned over and acted upon in near real-time. We specialize in designing and building systems around the Sense & Respond paradigm, and can span the spectrum from event monitoring of sensor devices to to distributed collaborative planning and advanced decision support.

Our Product: ActiveEdge - An Intelligent Systems Development Platform
ActiveEdge is a Java-based solutions development and deployment platform, similar to J2EE, but designed around the Cognitive Grid. The Cognitive Grid is both a design methodology and a development technology. The methodology focuses on leveraging agent-oriented design in a distributed, rich knowledge model environment, typically having aspects of Situational Reasoning and Complex Planning / Execution events management.

The Cognitive Grid technologies are an architecture level integration of Intelligent Agents, Grid Computing and the Semantic Web. Intelligent Agents provide the cognitive reasoning and intelligent automation, Grid Computing provides the SOA and distributed resource management components, the Semantic Web provides the machine understandable meaning of the information to support deep reasoning and knowledge-rich situational representations. Together the methodology and technology enable the creation of a whole new class of distributed, web-based application we call intelligent systems. Check out our knowledge center to learn more...

Our Benefit: Adding a Thin Layer of Intelligence to the Modern Enterprise
A core component of our approach to intelligent decision support is the creation and utilization of rich situational representations for reasoning and decision support. These situations are defined using a sophisticated object-semantic model and the situational instance, called a construct, is composed off three integrated components - objects, networks and semantics managed by an advanced situational reasoning engine. The representation and engine allow us to create high-fidelity distributed representations of the situation, which then serves as the basis for deep reasoning, planning, visualization and decision support. Our open architecture approach allows us to provide a thin layer of intelligence to existing enterprise and contemporary systems, augmenting them with intelligent decision support, situational reasoning, and advanced planning capabilities. This is an effective way to add situational intelligence and reasoning to your existing enterprise infrastructure.

Click here to learn more about our Situational Reasoning Framework and how it can be used to create Situationally Aware Intelligent Decision Support solutions.