SBIR-STTR Award

We propose to build an Open Analytical Framework to support collaborative, distributed data collection and analysis.The Open Analytical Framework will be an inexpensive, distributed data mining and analysis platform. It emphasizes collaboration through information liquidity and performance through massive scale and parallelization. It is composed of a large distributed ensemble of cooperating data storage nodes (repositories) and applications layered on the resulting uniform data space.We will address the problems of information object identity, schema definition, distributed indexing and query, caching and consistency, change notification, and intermittently connected (e.g., mobile) applications. Our proposed solutions revolve around the use of simple layered data representations (u-forms) and agents to manage the data (shepherds). Our goal is to facilitate the routine sharing of information and analytical insight across cooperating (but independent) organizations to support, for instance, law enforcement operations. We expect the resulting technology to have numerous government and commercial applications

We propose to build an Open Analytical Framework using a technology called Cluster Based Repositories to support collaborative, distributed data collection and analysis. The Open Analytical Framework will be an inexpensive, distributed information analysis platform. It emphasizes collaboration through information liquidity and performance through massive scale and parallelization. It is composed of a large distributed ensemble of cooperating data storage nodes (repositories) and applications layered on the resulting uniform data space. We will address the problems of information object identity, schema definition, distributed indexing and query, caching and consistency, change notification, and intermittently connected (e.g., mobile) applications. Our proposed solutions revolve around the use of simple layered data representations (u-forms) and agents to manage the data (shepherds).

Keywords:
DISTRIBUTED DATABASES, DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING, PERVASIVE COMPUTING, MOBILE COMPUTING, DATA MINING, CSCW (COMPUTER SUPPORTED COLLABORATIVE WORK), INFORM