1.  Data-Sharing Middleware for Information Dissemination Among Heterogeneous Sources
(Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Ham Hunter)(University of Tennessee -  Harong Qi) -in progress

A key growing need is to provide derived knowledge for empirical real-time situational awareness systems that span wide-area deployments (such as E911 systems in a metro area). Sharing of information to various agencies to and from emergency response teams requires delivery and display of accurate, time-sensitive data for rapid coordination and efficient operations. This project will develop a data sharing “middleware” that is able to handle multiple distributed data sources and dynamically changing data items, to assist in real-time information dissemination across multiple agencies for homeland security purposes. This will be used as a mechanism that is able to “translate” data from different sources into a repository maintained with common templates so that data can be moved from originators to requestors in a generic manner.