Acknowledgements¶

Funding for Sunflower development has been provided by:

The U.S. DoD Test Resource Management Center (TRMC) Test and Evaluation Science and Technology Program, Netcentric System Testing (NST) technology area. Sunflower was developed in part under the Rule Authoring and Validation (RAVE) and Analyzer for Netcentric System Test Confederations (ANSC) projects.The authors would like to thank Gil Torres, NAVAIR, and his team for leadership of NST and oversight of RAVE and ANSC.
Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Readiness) Training, Readiness and Strategy (TRS). Sunflower was developed in part under the Open Net-Centric Standards for Training and Testing (ONISTT) project. The authors would like to thank Frank DiGiovanni (ODASD) and his team for leadership of TRS and oversight of ONISTT.
SRI International.

We would like also to acknowledge expert support from principals of software systems on which Sunflower depends:

Flora-2: Michael Kifer (SUNY Stony Brook and Coherent Knowledge Systems [CKS]); Benjamin Grosof (CKS).
XSB Prolog: David Warren (SUNY Stony Brook and XSB, Inc.); Terrance Swift (CKS and NOVALincs, Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
InterProlog: Miguel Calejo (InterProlog Consulting)

Members of the SRI Sunflower team include Daniel Elenius, Susanne Riehemann, Reg Ford, Grit Denker, Jim Klo, Michael Wessel, Stijn Heymans, David Hanz, John Shockley, Mark Johnson, and Mark Eliot.