Collaborative visualization for military planning

Timothy Jacobs; Sean Butler

doi:10.1117/12.433006

12 July 2001 Collaborative visualization for military planning

Timothy Jacobs, Sean Butler

Proceedings Volume 4521, Java/Jini Technologies; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.433006
Event: ITCom 2001: International Symposium on the Convergence of IT and Communications, 2001, Denver, CO, United States

Abstract

So that a military commander has precise command, control, and planning information available for a given mission, information must be tailored for a particular area of operation, for a specific level of command, and for a specific time period. The commander must be able to quickly understand the information, query related information, and analyze the information in collaboration with others to plan and control a military operation. To provide such tailored information, we envision an environment in which customized agents traverse a diverse, distributed, frequently changing information space to identify relevant data. Once aware of the data, visual interfaces facilitate understanding and navigation. Geographically separated users manipulate a customized view to access a common information framework in which they can interactively collaborate with other users. We propose an architecture for achieving this vision that is well suited to implementation with Jini networking technologies. As a first step toward achieving this architecture we have developed a collaborative visualization framework that enables multiple distributed users to interact using shared visual interface components while simultaneously communicating via a text-based chat window. Our framework provides communications management and messaging support and well-defined Java class interfaces for integrating visualization components. Initial results indicate significant benefits for application development through reuse and extensibility. We achieved interactive performance and synchronized collaboration using JavaSpaces as the underlying distributed technology.

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Timothy Jacobs and Sean Butler "Collaborative visualization for military planning", Proc. SPIE 4521, Java/Jini Technologies, (12 July 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.433006

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Human-machine interfaces

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Information visualization

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