Submission to EUROCONTROL Programme CARE INO III Towards Fault-Tolerant Cooperative Air Traffic Management Detailed Description of the project proposal

The design of future air traffic management (ATM) systems appears as a grand challenge. Because of its very large scale, complexity, and dynamicity, we believe that the future of air traffic management lies in hybrid distributed cooperative control systems, including human experts (air traffic controllers) and also intelligent computer support through artificial agents. Such artificial agents could implement various roles and functions: e.g., assistants of human experts, training support, local decision support systems, information servers, monitoring and analysis of human activities (local and aggregated), etc. The concepts of multi-agent systems [1], where various agents interact and coordinate to achieve complex goals appears as a very promising conceptual framework for such challenges.