Distributed Collaborative Workflow Based Approach to Data Collection and Analysis

摘要

Data Collection and Analysis (also known as After Action Review) capabilities are common requirements for many Command and Control (C2) and Modeling and Simulation (M&S) systems and architectures. In our work we have found that in order to be maximally effective, these capabilities must be designed with the military user workflow process in mind. In this paper, we present a web-enabled Data Collection and Analysis capability that (1) considers a typical military workflow whereby several users, of varying levels of technical sophistication and disparate responsibilities, will need to make use of these capabilities, (2) addresses the need to enable distributed collaboration and (3) is based on a modular multi-layered service oriented architecture so that the same distributed collaborative workflow based approach can be used to satisfy a wide range of Data Collection and Analysis needs and can enable machine-to-machine interaction by exposing web services.