INTRODUCTION:
This statement of work details work to be accomplished under the Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Broad Agency Announcement BAA 97-07 Collaboration, Visualization, Information Management (CVIM) Technology in the Analysis Environments (AE) interest area. The CVIM program focuses on the integration of humans and networked information systems to improve collaboration and information utility. This program builds on and extends ongoing efforts to build collaboration middleware and digital library technology. The AE interest area is concerned with development of revolutionary user-centered information analysis environments supporting correlation and manipulation of multimedia and complex information resources across disciplinary barriers. Research areas include: acquisition, organization, manipulation and use of passive and active information resources and services based on semantic content, visualizing complex and abstract information spaces, value-based filtering, and search, retrieval, and manipulation of multimedia and complex documents.
OBJECTIVE:
The objective is to develop and demonstrate a prototype, generation-after-next, information analysis environment based on scalable semantics and demonstrating semantic interoperability.
This will require the following major efforts:
a. Specify, implement, refine, test and package the core algorithms needed
to implement semantic services for concept spaces, category spaces, automatic
meta-data generation, and meta-map generation.
b. Design and build the Interspace information analysis environment based
on the semantic services and demonstrating semantic interoperability by
providing semantic indexing, semantic retrieval, multi-view interfaces,
and semantic federation.
c. Research into Net infrastructure to simulate and determine generation-after
next performance requirements including specialized hardware and visualization
capabilities.
3. MAJOR REQUIREMENTS:
In order to accomplish the objective of this statement of work, it will be necessary to complete the following tasks.
a. Semantic Middleware Services
FY98
Task 1: Basic image analysis algorithms for texture-based indexing.
Task 2: Basic algorithms for text-based vocabulary switching.
Task 3: Basic category map algorithm development.
FY99
Task 1: Texture-based image algorithm testing and packaging.
Task 2: Semi-automatic concept mapping algorithms.
Task 3: Category map visualization algorithms.
FY00
Task 1: Real-time concept space algorithms
Task 2: Automatic concept mapping algorithms.
Task 3: Real-time category mapping algorithms.
b. Interspace Analysis Environment
FY98
Task 1: Interspace "Information Unit" framework.
Task 2: Basic information indexing, retrieval and display services.
FY99
Task 1: Text-based demonstration collection development.
Task 2: Text-based Ingestion, importation, and metadata extraction services.
Task 3: Integration of text-based Semantic Middleware Services.
FY00
Task 1: Image-based demonstration collection development.
Task 2: Image-based Ingestion, importation, and metadata extraction services.
Task 3: Integration of image-based Semantic Middleware Services.
4. GOVERNMENT PROVIDED INFORMATION AND EQUIPMENT: None.
5. MEETINGS AND REVIEWS: The following meetings and reviews are
anticipated:
a. Biannual In-Progress Reviews (IPR) to be conducted by Contracting Officer's
Technical Representative (COTR) .
b. CVIM program reviews and meetings as directed.
6. TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS: The following trips are anticipated:
a. Four trips per year for two people to CVIM program meetings and demonstrations.
b. Four trips per year for two people to visit other Testbed participants.
c. One trip per year for two people to make conference presentations.
7. REPORTS AND DELIVERABLES:
a. FY98
1Q: Basic Semantic Middleware specification.
1Q: Interspace initial design specification.
3Q: Basic Semantic Middleware services implementation.
4Q: Interspace initial implementation and demonstration.
b. FY99
1Q: Advanced Semantic Middleware specification.
1Q: Text test collection development complete.
3Q: Advanced Semantic Middleware services implementation.
4Q: Interspace prototype with basic semantic services and text collection
demonstrated.
c. FY00
1Q: Image test collection with texture-based indices.
1Q: Real-time text and image algorithms specifications.
3Q: Interspace prototype with image-based semantic services.
4Q: Real-time text and image algorithms implementation.
8. PERIOD OF SERVICE: All work under this proposal is to be completed within thirty six (36) months of contract award.
4.
DESCRIPTION OF RESULTS,
PRODUCTS, TRANSFERABLE TECHNOLOGY,
AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER PATH
7. TECHNICAL RATIONALE, APPROACH, AND PLAN
8. COMPARISONS TO OTHER RESEARCH
