The Multi-Intelligence Tools Suite - Supporting Research and Development in Information and Knowledge Exploitation
Abstract
While fulfilling its research mandate, the Intelligence and Information Section at DRDC Valcartier is constantly developing computer-based tools to support the analysts involved in intelligence activities. These tools are developed under different research projects, for various customers in diverse domains (e.g., improvised explosive devices and maritime situational awareness), to address specific aspects (e.g., the semantic analysis of unstructured documents, the use of automated reasoning to infer anomalous behaviours, etc.). For a large portion, they are built on knowledge-based systems technologies. However only providing stovepipe tools is not optimal; some integration is also required to create a synergy among them and facilitate the work of the analysts. The Multi-Intelligence Tools Suite (MITS) has thus been created as a federation of innovative composable and interoperable intelligence related tools, which are integrated and interleaved into an overall, continuous process flow relevant to the intelligence community. At the software system level, the backbone of the MITS is an integration platform built on open source Web services technologies, following service-oriented architecture (SOA) design principles. The paper first reviews the main characteristics of the MITS. Then it discusses the central notions of domain knowledge and situational facts, describes the ingestion in the MITS of structured and unstructured data and information, briefly describes the main modules of the MITS, provides an exploitation example highlighting some of its powerful and innovative capabilities, and introduces the SOA platform and human-computer interaction components that constitute the MITS.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2011
- Accession Number
- ADA547106
Entities
People
- Alain Auger
- Jean Roy
Organizations
- DRDC Valcartier