A Distributed Collaborative Workflow Based Approach to Data Collection and Analysis

Abstract

Data Collection and Analysis (also known as After Action Review) capabilities are common requirements for many Command and Control (C2) and Modeling and Simulation (M&S) systems and architectures. In our work we have found that in order to be maximally effective, these capabilities must be designed with the military user workflow process in mind. In this paper, we present a web-enabled Data Collection and Analysis capability that (1) considers a typical military workflow whereby several users, of varying levels of technical sophistication and disparate responsibilities, will need to make use of these capabilities, (2) addresses the need to enable distributed collaboration and (3) is based on a modular multi-layered service oriented architecture so that the same distributed collaborative workflow based approach can be used to satisfy a wide range of Data Collection and Analysis needs and can enable machine-to-machine interaction by exposing web services.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA466000

Entities

People

  • Douglas Enas
  • Susan Gottschlich
  • William Gerecke

Organizations

  • RTX

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Protocols
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Programs
  • Infrastructure
  • Iraqi-War
  • Lessons Learned
  • Local Area Networks
  • Networks
  • Service Oriented Architecture
  • Spreadsheet Software
  • Standards
  • Tactical Training
  • Training
  • United States Central Command
  • User Interface
  • Web Browsers
  • Web Service

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control