Knowledge Center

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Welcome to our Knowledge Center, where you can find valuable information about our products and solutions as well as general information about intelligent agents, situation awareness, and RFID. Just follow the links on this page to download the PDF versions of these documents from our library.


Data Sheets
Choosing the Right Middleware - Choosing a solution that can easily grow and change with your organization and allows your organization to be flexible, adaptable, and cost-efficient is key.
Getting the Most from your RFID Middleware Investment - Read this checklist to find out if you are getting the most from your RFID investment.
ActiveEdge RFID Middleware - Learn more about how our innovative middleware solution can help you realize the full return of your RFID investment.

Understanding
the Technology Series
Intelligent Agents 101 - This document serves to define the concepts of intelligent software agents as they apply to Cougaar Software solutions. This white paper is intended to provide a basic discussion of what agents are and what they are not; and, more importantly, it describes how agents can be applied to improve our way of life in everyday business operations.

About RFID Technology - This document defines the basic concepts of RFID as they apply to Cougaar Software solutions.


Product & Technology
Whitepapers
The ActiveEdge DDE - The ActiveEdge Distributed Data Environment (DDE) is an intelligent agent-based framework that integrates heterogeneous and homogenous data sources into a single environment. It is a robust and complete solution that addresses all the challenges of operating in a distributed environment. It enables advanced data fusion, query capabilities, advanced data replication and synchronization as well as distributed data access for diverse data sources.
The ActiveEdge SRF - In today’s rapidly evolving technological and business environments, situation awareness becomes critical to making the right decisions and achieving business goals quickly and most effectively. The ActiveEdge Situational Reasoning Framework (SRF) provides real-time display of the dynamic situation in a rich, virtual world picture.
The Power of Intelligent Agents - Cougaar Software applications are built upon a powerful architecture concept called distributed intelligent agents. Read here about the powerful capabilities that a distributed, intelligent agent architecture can provide.
Choosing the Right Middleware - With the increasing demands for distributed real-time systems, the need for appropriate tools and platforms is more critical than ever before. Middleware is at the forefront of distributed computing. The choice you make determines the success and strength of your network applications. . Choosing a solution that can easily grow and change with your organization and allows your organization to be flexible, adaptable, and cost-efficient is key.
Implementing RFID - With the latest RFID mandates, RFID represents on one side a major IT modernization, but on the other it also represents a major investment for organizations. While the costs are great, companies can leverage the opportunity for improvements by embracing the technology’s ability to give near real-time visibility into their inventory, asset locations, and operations processes. There has never been a better time to explore how to visualize, understand, and control enterprise operations during execution.