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A -- COLLABORATION,VISUALIZATION, AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT (CVIM) TECHNOLOGY SOL BAA97-09 DUE 022697 POC Dr. Ronald Larsen, DARPA/ITO, Fax (703) 522-7161. COLLABORATION, VISUALIZATION, AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT (CVIM) TECHNOLOGY SOL BAA97-09 DUE 022697 POC Dr. Ronald Larsen, DARPA/ITO, FAX: (703) 522-7161. Modification to BAA 97-09: The purpose of this modification is to add an area of research for proposal submission to BAA 97-09 originally published in the CBD on 5 NOV 96. All other terms and conditions of BAA 97-09 and the Proposer Information Pamphlet BAA 97-09 remain the same. The additional topic area follows: 4. INTELLIGENT INTEGRATION OF INFORMATION (I*3), David Gunning (DARPA/ISO). In addition to IC&V and IM work described in BAA 97-09, proposals are solicited under the BAA for DARPA's Intelligent Integration of Information (I*3) Program. The I*3 program is seeking proposals for the definition, development, demonstration, and application of new information technology to enable the intelligent search, retrieval, filtering, integration, abstraction, monitoring, and update of information from large collections (i.e., 100's to 1000's) of dynamically changing, potentially inconsistent, heterogeneous data sources, including knowledge bases, structured databases (hierarchical, network, relational, and object-oriented), semi-structured documents (e.g., web pages), and unstructured text, image, and video files. Over the past three years, the I*3 Program has sponsored research in this area, which is summarized on the I*3 Projects Web Page (''http://dc.isx.com/I3/''). The future goals of the I*3 program are: (1) to continue to develop information integration technology to semantically search, query, and monitor large collections of heterogeneous data sources, and (2) to develop, demonstrate, and transition a suite of information integration tools which reduce the cost of developing, maintaining, and evolving these large-scale integrated systems. Specifically, two types of proposals are solicited: I*3 Technology and I*3 Integration and Application. 4.1 I*3 TECHNOLOGY: The I*3 Program is seeking proposals for the development of basic data mediation technology to ''wrap'', access, translate, represent, semantically transform, abstract, and integrate information from heterogeneous, autonomously developed, data sources--especially for the integration of information from structured databases with semi-structured (e.g., web pages) and unstructured (e.g., text, video, image files) data sources. Also sought are proposals to extend the basic mediation technology to better handle inconsistent and errorful data, to provide active monitoring, as well as passive querying, of heterogeneous data sources, and to ensure secure access and mediation. Also sought are innovative approaches to automatically or semi-automatically inspect, characterize, and ''wrap'' diverse data sources to reduce the cost and development time of constructing and maintaining mediation systems. 4.2 I*3 TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION AND APPLICATION: Proposals are sought to integrate and apply component I*3 (as well as IC&V and IM) technologies into DARPA and other defense applications. This includes: defining and developing an integration architecture and integration environment for the inclusion and interoperation of component technologies, refining and ruggedizing component technologies as necessary to make them suitable for application, providing test data, test problems, and evaluation metrics to facilitate the development, integration, and testing of component technologies, the creation of a complete development environment which could be used by system developers to design, develop, test, and apply I*3 concepts and technologies to DARPA and other defense applications, and working with selected DARPA application programs to transition I*3 technology. Of particular interest are the DARPA ISO application programs: JTF ATD, JFACC, ALP, GENOA, BADD, and DMIF, which are described on the DARPA ISO Web Page at http://maco.dc.isx.com/iso/. The BAA Proposer Information Pamphlet for BAA 97-09 may be obtained from one of the administrative addresses below. The administrative addresses for this BAA are: Fax: 703-522-7161 Addressed to: DARPA/ITO, BAA 97-09, Electronic Mail:baa9709@darpa.mil,Electronic File Retrieval: http://www.ito.darpa.mil/Solicitations.html, Mail: DARPA/ITO, ATTN: BAA 97-09, 3701 N. Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203-1714. (0334)

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