The Challenge of Swarm Information Defense Technical Information Service March 31, 2003 Stephen E. Arnold In Maryland, Virginia, and the District: InfoZen, Inc. 2275 Research Blvd., Suite 320 Rockville, Maryland 20850 [email protected]Information Technolo gy ARNOLD
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The Challenge of Swarm Information
Defense Technical Information ServiceMarch 31, 2003
Stephen E. ArnoldIn Maryland, Virginia, and the District:
• Reality 2003• Devices fuel the swarm model• Architecture for 2003 and beyond• Opportunity / challenge
Reality One: Network “Ecosystem”
Source: Internet Mapping Project (Bill Cheswick [Bell Labs], Hal Burch [CMU])http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/ches/map/index.html and http://dsl.cs.uchicago.edu/Courses/cs347-2002/
Long development cycle due to poor component reuse
Loosely-coupled, component-ized services are reusable and dynamically reconfigurable
Lost time spent on proprietary APIs
Vendor-neutral standardization of format and protocol
High maintenance and integration costs
Loosely-coupled, standards-based format and protocol
For Information Professionals...
A different information mode... real-time ... text, images, and video... automated systems... push data where it is likely to be needed... pull data when data are required...
• IBM + PriceWaterhouseCoopers = $• Deficits / economic downturn• “Like the Web but better and cheaper”• Reduce vendor lock in
The Design
Users Are a Different Story
Challenges
• Moving from highly fragmented systems to a common “foundation”
• Public agencies and “secret information”• Privacy• Security• Silos
Roadmap Needed…
InfoZen / Arnold ITInfoZen / Arnold IT
• Independent for 12 years
• Booz, Allen; Bell+Howell; Ziff Communications-- Participated in the development ABI/INFORM, Business Dateline, General Business File, and Health Reference Center
• Provides technology assessment and information engineering services
• Recent projects:– Wireless strategy for one of the “world’s largest software company”
– One of the founders of the Point Internet service (“Top 5% of the ‘Net), sold to Lycos in 1995
– U.S. government projects (First Gov, OCSC, House of Representatives)
• US West’s online yellow pages strategy • Six books, more than 40 articles. New book in 2003,
Knowledge Management Sense and Non-Sense (Infonortics, Ltd. Tetbury, U.K.)
• ASIS Distinguished Lectureship / Thomson Online Best Paper Award