STOTTLER HENKE ASSOCIATES, INC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: We propose to address the growing challenge of information overload in network-centric inf

Description

We propose to address the growing challenge of information overload in network-centric information systems through the development of an agent-based framework that improves the warfighter"s awareness of critical information. In particular, we propose to enable adaptive information visualization in two ways: (1) exploiting simple profiles of the user"s context to support intelligent discovery and relevance filtering of information from various data sources; and (2) employing a"fire and forget"server-side agent to reduce the demand on potentially constrained client devices operating under less than ideal network conditions. We also propose to utilize the context and existing workflow of the warfighter to adapt the visualization and streamline user interfaces to support the need to markup and provide feedback on this data. Our proposed system, Milieu, will dynamically construct semantic resources by exploiting corroborating evidence from a variety of heterogeneous sources. This emergent semantic information will provide a foundation upon which new information discovery and filtering techniques will be constructed to better meet the capabilities and requirements of the warfighter than general purpose information visualization technologies. The significant progress made in Phase I established the feasibility of our overall approach, which will allow us, in Phase II, to deliver the sought-after system.