SWIM: An AI-based System for Organisation Management

This paper reports on the development of the Smart Workkow for isr Management (swim) system which has been designed to enable complex systems, business and software, to be controlled within the workkow management paradigm. The system exploits recent advances within the ai community in reac-tive control, scheduling and continuous execution. swim extends the workkow paradigm to respond to the dynamic and uncertain environments by viewing the control processes themselves as dynamic evolving entities. swim is being applied to the domain of Information Surveillance and Reconnaissance (isr), a highly reactive domain where continual and complex requirements for information acquisition, analysis and distribution must be satissed within a temporal and resource constrained setting. Similar problems occur in the space domain in the development of missions, science experiments, payload check out, etc. The swim system comprises two main components: process manager and the dynamic execution order scheduling system. Details of both of these components are provided in the paper.