ISL is highly scalable, secure, robust, light weight, and easy-to-use Integration framework for: Agents, Services, Web Services, Objects, HLA Models & Simulations, and more ..

Intelligent Service Layer (ISL) is an advanced and powerful integration and interoperability solution for developing distributed services and agent applications.

An auto generation tool is included to reduce efforts for wrapping third party applications and services. For example, using this tool enables the Google search engine to be wrapped in less than 15 minutes.

GITI offers technical support for ISL and world-class integration services to rapidly and efficiently develop interoperability and intelligent systems solutions. Please contact us for information about our services or discuss teaming agreements.

This framework was originally developed for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as the CoABS Grid.  In recent years, GITI has continued to evolve and enhance the original CoABS technology into ISL.

GITI's integration framework has been evaluated and used by over 400 organizations to address integration and interoperability for many applications, some of which are listed below (also see Case Studies):

• Enterprise Information Systems using J2EE and Web Services to add dynamic discovery of resources where resources may not always be available.
• Integration of best of breed commercial off the shelf knowledge discovery and visualization products for the Intelligence Community.
• Joint and Coalition C4ISR systems to rapidly establish interoperability among diverse military systems.
• Military Services to create an integrated view of the battle space by integrating large number of sensors that include Predator, P3, and many other sensor types.
• Integration of HLA compliant simulation results for the Modeling & Simulation Community.
• Homeland Security applications where a large number of sensors and information sources from Internet or databases must be continuously monitored to detect patterns and critical events.
  

ISL is a light-weight run-time foundation that integrates heterogeneous agent-based systems, object-based applications, and legacy systems. It includes a method-based application programming interface to register agents and services, advertise their capabilities, discover agents based on their capabilities, and send messages between agents. ISL also provides a logging service, to log both message traffic and other information; a security service to provide authentication, encryption, and secure communication; and event notification when agents register, de-register, or change their advertised attributes.

ISL Provides:

• A foundation to easily wrap legacy systems
• Full interoperability with J2EE and Web Services
• A network for distributed, registry, discovery and runtime integration
• Advertise and modify registered capabilities
• Sophisticated search function for identifying resources
• Discovery services / agents based on templates, predicates
• Event notification for registration / modifications
• Automatic logging of agent messages
• Message encryption and service authentication
• Administration tools
• Publish and subscribe services
• Visualization of agents interactions
  

Benefits:

The simple distributed object framework of ISL enables developers to cost effectively wrap existing applications and make them available through a common decentralized registry. Automated delivery of vital information and data to geographically dispersed forces allows them to easily and quickly synchronize operational activities. The ISL high-performance, distributed framework integrates disparate technologies into a highly effective, coordinated information system.

Using ISL enables organizations to develop intelligent application software by incorporating intelligent software agents.