Flexible Data Entry for Information Warning and Response Systems
Abstract
The need to collect data that can provide warnings to avert crisis situations is paramount to many modern military and civil response systems. These systems allow the end user to report a variety of anomalies about the world. The U.S. Air Force's Integrated Information Management System (IIMS) has been developed to support the collection and interpretation of data that may be indicative of potential chemical or biological attacks. Data-entry forms are generally provided to end-users for description of incidents of interest. Since all possible data types cannot be realized in the design process, it would be useful to provide forms that can adapt to the data being collected. Tracker is a tool that allows a user to define and use one or more XML-based templates (forms) to support problems such as crisis-action mission planning. Tracker provides users with a suite of tools that allow them to easily add or modify fields in a given template or instance. Since this feature is the type of capability that the IIMS developers wanted for their system, an experiment was conducted linking Tracker to IIMS. In this paper we present the results of this experiment.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2005
- Accession Number
- ADA463878
Entities
People
- Alice M. Mulvehill
- Brian Krisler
- James P Reilly
Organizations
- BBN Technologies