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Concept of a Portal for the Integration of COP-Objects from Heterogeneous Sources

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Concept of a Portal for the Integration

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  • C2IS should support network-centric operations (NCO)
  • C2IS must provide a global infospace connecting all participating elements
  • Joint, combined, interagency operations (JIMP) multi-disciplinary teams
  • Agility requires being able to respond to emerging situations
  • Heterogeneous systems to be included

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A semantic integration is necessary.

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  • Is this proper integration?

Legacy systems and COTS products do not allow for an easy semantic integration: different business and logic data models heavy heterogeneous data to be integrated various formats and standards for communication, data storage, etc.

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  • System = collection of applications
  • Own GUI for each application integration on „pixel-level“
  • Disadvantages:
  • Workflow: application driven

(import edit store)

  • Difficult adaption to COP
  • Inconsistent, fragmented

& misleading visualization

  • Different views, symbols,

positions

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  • COP views of different services are combined

within a common situational picture and service-crossing function calls are supported No ‚semantic’ integration at the business

  • bjects layer. Harmonization of logical data

models of services is not required! Integration of C2 applications at the visualization (presentation) layer

The integration idea: consolidation of the visualization data from the business objects of services and their appropriate visualization at a common presentation layer.

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Advantages of the integration portal: 1. Central integrated user interface based on COP

  • homogeneous overall view (uniform data visualization)
  • Misinterpretation and misunderstandings decreased

2. Better support for application-crossing business processes

  • more intuitive and efficient realization of business processes of the user
  • increased user acceptance

3. Encapsulation of GIS

  • elimination of redundant visualization components of C2IS
  • uniform presentation of spatial data
  • easy of exchangeability of GIS
  • product-independent integration of GIS (usage of open source possible)
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Full semantic integration:

  • time-consuming
  • very expensive
  • extremely complicated

Integration level

Portal technology Integration Portal:

  • no semantic integration necessary
  • no ultimate solution
  • flexible and cost-efficient compromise
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  • services pass visualizable data of their business objects to integration portal
  • integration portal presents only visualization elements
  • abstract, plattform independent objects
  • transformation of business objects into visualization elements required

Legacy System

Service 1 external transformation business objects IntPortal Core visualization elements

Visualization elements Function call

Service 2 internal transformatuion business objects

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V-Objects: abstract objects for visualization data of services visualized in the integration portal

unique identifier data to be visualized

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Information groups: represents structured groupings of thematic-related v-objects

  • important structuring-tool
  • possesses structure and linear order on its nodes
  • two types of nodes: v-objects and groupings

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  • thematic-related v-objects constitute groups with similar functionalities
  • services assign their functions to groups which semantic they know
  • need for service-crossing standardization of description for information-groups

Service-functions: defined by some service, can be called by the user in the context of v-objects in the GUI, but are implemented and executed by the service itself

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  • thematic-related v-objects constitute groups with similar functionalities
  • services assign their functions to groups which semantic they know
  • need for service-crossing standardization of description for information-groups

Service-functions: defined by some service, can be called by the user in the context of v-objects in the GUI, but are implemented and executed by the service itself

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  • thematic-related v-objects constitute groups with similar functionalities
  • services assign their functions to groups which semantic they know
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Communication IntPortal Services based on Requests and Answers Service-Requests: Service IntPortal

  • add, modify, and delete-requests for visualization elements

IntPortal-Requests: IntPortal Service, or IntPortal IntPortal Manager

  • for handling of user calls to service-functions
  • support the maintenance of the integration portal (e.g., log-off procedure)

Manager-Requests: IntPortal Manager IntPortal

  • manage the instantiation and initialization of the integration portal

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  • Visual Object Manager:

consistency-preserving processing of service-requests

  • Display Manager:

efficient maintenance of visualization elements and their preparation for visualization

  • Graphical User Interface:

ergonomic presentation & interaction with the user

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Advantage: the components can be

distributed in the network according to the actual available resources

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Priority strategy:

  • enables for priority-based handling of requests
  • defines the processing order of requests
  • realized by dedicated components of integration portal: mediators

Update strategy:

  • makes sure that only the actual data is visualized
  • no more actual data is deleted or moved to history
  • implemented in request-mediators

Example: Split priority strategy

  • Every request gets from services two different priority-values:
  • Request-priority: valid among all requests of one service
  • Service-priority: valid among all services (cross-service)
  • Values allowed for priorities are given the services by some instance of access-

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Integrationsportal

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  • Specific visualization components
  • As plug-ins
  • Fill their corresponding panels
  • Highly flexible, adaptable to various data types
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Integrationsportal

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  • visualization of spatial data via GIS
  • encapsulation of GIS via appropriate visualization components

Advantages:

  • Elimination of redundant visualization components of C2IS
  • Uniform visualization of spatial data
  • Product-independence
  • Easy exchangeability of GIS (even open source GIS possible)

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Vis-Component

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  • New integration concept for COP
  • based on integration of visualization elements
  • heterogeneous sources of data
  • modular architecture
  • Integration portal as alternative solution for integration
  • Allows reuse of existing systems and services
  • Interesting compromise between portal technology and semantic integration
  • Step towards fully integrated, single system
  • Collaboration
  • Shared and integrated handling of COP-objects from heterogeneous sources
  • Hiding underlying complexity from the user
  • Increased effectiveness through natural, service-crossing workflows
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Thank you for your attention!