Distributed collaborative decision support system for rocket launch operation

This paper presents an overview of a decision support system for rocket launch operation from the viewpoint of distributed collaboration mechanisms. The system comprises interface agents that mediate between operators on site or support engineers in distance and various Web services that function as large-grain-size task modules for operation support. In order to orchestrate the distributed Web services over the Internet, we have adopted semantic Web services technology that enable to compose the atomic Web services in order to achieve the given goal. The interface agent for operation support is also a Web service agent that behaves that composes Web services and executes them on behalf of each user