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Application Communities (AC)

Program Manager: Dr. Charles Morefield

Mission:

The goal of the Application Communities (AC) program is to develop a software execution infrastructure for existing COTS programs. This infrastructure will monitor and augment COTS application behavior so multiple active copies of an application running under the infrastructure behave as a self-aware community that:

collaboratively diagnoses problems (attacks/bugs/errors),
collaboratively responds to problems by generating appropriate configuration changes, patches, filters, etc., and
collaboratively generates a community-specific situation awareness gauge that predicts the likelihood and timing of imminent problems.