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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]
ARNOLD
Information
Technology
Links
The presentation http://www.infozen.com
http://www.arnoldit.com
Digital publication that is “more than a
blog and less than a newsletter”:
http://www.xenky.com
What We’ll Cover
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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/
Reality Two: Risk
Reality Three... Tools
Work for 20 Somethings
Reality Four: New Models
Reality Five:
Shifting Gears...
So what... defense information ...
military-civilian information ...
access... communications across
boundaries?
“Pressure Points” and the Mission
Continuous Pressure
Clinger Cohen 1996
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Architecture
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Investment Review
Management Process/Program
Performance Measures
Planning
Program Review
Work Process Review
Source: http://irm.cit.nih.gov/policy/legislation.html
Simultaneously ...
Swarm communications and
information flows become the
norm...
The Devices... Civilian
Military...
Integrated View
App
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User A
App
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User B
App
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User C
App
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App
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App
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App
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App
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App
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User A’s View
User D
User B’s View
User C’s View
User D’s View
Enterprise Applications
Mobile IP with Seamless Roaming
”I start my day by
accessing the
library via my
PDA.”
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Colleague /
Operative at Internet
Café
IP zone
Public and
Global
Fixed
Network infrastructure
Network infrastructure
Non-Secure, Unauthorized
Instant Messaging
At home
WLAN
Non-Secure, Unauthorized
Instant Messaging
GPRS zone
IP zone
WLAN
Mobile IP with Seamless Roaming
Colleague /
Operative at Internet
Café
IP zone
”I participate in a conference
and review full text
documents with my
WLAN
colleagues in my automobile.”
Public and
Global
Fixed
Network infrastructure
Network infrastructure
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GPRS zone
Non-Secure, Unauthorized In the car
Instant Messaging
Non-Secure, Unauthorized
Instant Messaging
IP zone
WLAN
Mobile IP with Seamless ”In
Roaming
my meeting, I use my
hybrid device to show my
presentation and transfer a
full text document to my
client’s computer sysetm.”
Colleague /
Operative at Internet
Café
IP zone
WLAN
Non-Secure, Unauthorized
Instant Messaging
Public and
Global
Fixed
Network infrastructure
Network infrastructure
GPRS zone
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Partner
Site
Non-Secure, Unauthorized
Instant Messaging
IP zone
WLAN
What’s the Magic?
Online / Offline Browsing for Missions
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I am going
to London
Continued offline browsing
Perform transactions while offline
(e.g. book tickets and hotel)
Offline email session - PIM is synchronized
Terminal: A
PDA/Smartphone with
web browser,
GSM and Bluetooth
DBE
(EMPTY)
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Public IP Zone
at the airport
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OFFLINE
In-flight
browsing
DBE
(FULL)
”I must synchronize
my mail and
calendar (PIM)
I will confirm my
mission
I want all information
about my
destination”
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IP zone – IP access – e.g. Sync PIM
Nomadic Portal – Local content –
confirm ticket
Mobile Database – Device is
automatically loaded with all
infomation about London
Synchronize
transactions
Swarm
Devices’
Wireless
PDAs
Smartphones
Internet
Intelligent
Mobile IP
POTS, ISDN etc.
GSM, GPRS,EDGE
Mobile networks
Backend ISP/Telecom
public server infrastructure
Laptops
Things that Think /
Decoy consoles
DB Engine
Web
servers
UMTS
WCDMA/
Hiperlan2
Load
bal
Secure Network Operator
IP backbone
Communicator
platforms
IP zone
software
IP zone
WLAN/Bluetooth
Access points
Set-top terminals
Data
Synchronization
Home
Wireless Access
WLAN/Bluetooth
Java2EE
ODBC
JDBC
SQL
ADSL,
CATV, etc.
”Web pads”
for home use
Application
server
Contractor
VPNs
Commercial
Databases
Collaboration
Handheld devices
Australian urban
equipment
Difficult... Different Information Needs
Needed... ADE
Shared Services Argument
• Pool resources and buy a better solution
• Canada says overall savings are about 30
percent
• Technical environment allows distributed
computing
• Outsource and have a few key people
doing more via shared services
Humans Needed: Finished Intelligence and Reporting (R. Steele, 2002)
Revision Tracking
and Real-Time
Collaboration
Tier 3
Personal
Publishing and
Word Processing
Collaborative
Work
Tier 2
Tier 3
Interactive
Search and
Retrieval of Data
Clustering and
Linking of
Related Data
Conversion of
Paper Documents
to Digital Form
Notetaking and
Organizing Ideas
Graphic and MapBased Visualization
of Data
Statistical
Analysis to Reveal
Anomalies
Automated Foreign
Language
Translation
Open Literature
Production of
Graphics, Videos
Online Briefings
Structured
Argument
Analysis
Modeling and
Simulations
Detection of
Changing Trends
Processing Images,
Video, Audio, Signal
Data
Non-Text Data
Detection of
Alert Situations
Automated Extraction of
Data Elements From Text
and Images
Standardizing
and Converting
Data Formats
Restricted Information
Snap Together… Reusable
Standardized
pieces that
snap
together…
Lego blocks can be
used to build different
things by snapping the
standardized pieces
together…
The Plug In “Model”
Case
Management
Benefit
Reports
Other Transaction
Services
Benefit
Reports
Proprietary Solutions
Web Services
Significant system changes are
difficult
Loosely-coupled, standardsbased format and protocol
Architectural changes require
unrelated components to change
Coarse-grained, service-oriented
request/reply paradigm hides
implementation
Long development cycle due to
poor component reuse
Loosely-coupled, componentized 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, standardsbased format and protocol
For Information Professionals...
A different information mode... realtime ... text, images, and video...
automated systems... push data
where it is likely to be needed... pull
data when data are required...
This Becomes...
And This?
Swarm: Network Communications
New Views of Digital Information
Term
Context
Glimpse
Autogenerate Device View
Highlight
Wrap Up
Opportunity
Collaborative “Swarm” Networks (R.
Steele, 2002)
Expert Fora
Shared
Calendars
Distance
Learning
Shared
Address
Books
OPG
VPN
Shared
Data Pools
Continuous
Reviews
Virtual
Libraries
Shared
Services
Budget
Buzzwords and Consultants
• The browser model
• Distributed computing
• Standards (SOAP, XML, UDDI, WSDL)
• 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 IT
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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:
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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)
InfoZen / Arnold IT
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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
Professional services on offer…
Contact:
Stephen Arnold
502-228-1966, voice
502-228-0548, facsimile
www.arnoldit.com
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