Collaborative Software for Information Fusion
Abstract
This report describes initial research in developing the scientific foundations and practical experience necessary for a highly responsive information-fusion application that improves the effectiveness of analysts and decisionmakers within the Army's Unit of Action (brigade-level force). This research is leading to the development of a software application that can augment and support Army personnel in answering Priority Intelligence Requirements (PIRs) associated with monitoring, assessing, and responding to enemy actions and other battlespace-environment characteristics. Currently, time constraints and information overload often result in hasty, partial analysis of the information available to intelligence personnel. An effective, automated support application can help Army analysts and decisionmakers within the Unit of Action focus on appropriate data by providing spatially and temporally aggregated views of the environment and by ensuring that important information has not been overlooked. Initial research was performed in the areas of: blackboard-system-based architectural techniques, opportunistic control machinery, and their effects on hypothesis management; multi-entity Bayesian blackboard representations, construction, and inference; temporal and spatial knowledge representation and data aggregation; dynamic, priority-based, problem-solving control strategies. This report discusses issues and approaches addressed, progress to date, and lessons learned concluding with a summary of technical challenges and recommendations facing future research and development activities.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 2005
- Accession Number
- ADA437538
Entities
People
- Daniel D. Corkill