Fiscal Year	2015
Division	Research & Sponsored Programs
Department	Naval Research Program
Investigator(s)	Boger, Dan C.
Sponsor	NPS Naval Research Program (Navy)
Summary	MTN approach is message-centric (MC). It's based on "message/transmission format" translations. Some combat systems have adopted data-centric (DC) approach, a dramatic improvement from MC to switching to distributed relational data representation. With all the novelty behind DC, its niche is niche market is a Control. DC visualization approach is based on transactional overlays bringing the data clutter affecting the quality and speed of the commanders' decision making. Novel information exchange approach is needed for Data-to-Decisions (D2D) Big Data paradigm to resolve: - Inability to do lossless data mapping across dissimilar TDLs due to the hardwired nature of MC data forwarders/gateways. STANAG-5616/MIL-STD-6020 link, standard for data forwarding between tactical data systems employing Links 11/11B and tactical data systems employing Link 16, may lose single link platform information in translation. - Significant labor-intensive effort to develop point-to-point (P2P) TDL translators. - Proliferation of versions of "message formats/transmission formats" driving up labor expenses to change message parsers, which are hardcoded within the apps - Transformation of meaning during the transformation of data. - Lack of "message/transmission data model" to store correlated/fused information. - Inability to represent information at multiple levels of abstraction/aggregation needed for Decision Making Machine-to-Human / Human-to-Machine interfaces. - Inability of messages to express graphs and scientific data resulting in mixing MC approach with file-centric (FC) approach based on secure FTP and alike protocols
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