Title: Image Matters LLC eGov Briefing
1Image Matters LLCeGov Briefing
Christopher Lakey Lead Engineer
- 214 S. King Street
- Leesburg, VA 20175
- www.imagemattersllc.com
2Image Matters Overview
- Products Business Unit
- Semantic Technologies
- Smart Web Services
- Knowledge Engineering
- Location-Based Services
- Consulting Business Unit
- Interoperability Engineering
- Technologies Web Services, Sensor Webs,
Location-Based Services, GIS, Emergency Response,
and Critical Infrastructure Protection - Strategic Business Development
- Business Communications
- Government Services Business Unit
- Emergency Response
- Geospatial Sciences
- Geospatial Intelligence
- Internet/Web Applications
- Situation Awareness
- Visualization, Modeling and Simulation
- Open GIS Consortiums interoperability engineers
- Expertise
- Framework design
- Service design
- Information modeling
- Semantics
3SBIR Semantic Mapping Tools
- Problems
- Flexible querying of geospatial databases
- schema integration
- automatic data translation
- Phase I
- Study requirements
- Study current state of semantic translation
technology. - Design a semantic mapping tool
- Phase I Option
- Demonstration Prototype
- Phase II
- Ontology Foundation Classes
- Ontology Manipulation Toolkit
- userSmarts Services
- Personalization
- Negotiation
- Schema Translation
- Process Translation
- Smart Query
- Pax River Prototype
4Our Innovations userSmarts
A service middleware product for smart
services Best suited for complex, time critical,
location-sensitive applications that demand
autonomous operations
- Semantic Web Framework
- Ontological Information Models
- Situation
- Incident
- Observation
- Equipment
- Event
- Organization
- Runtime Semantic Services that Exploit Ontology
- Context-Sensitive (Smart) Service Framework
- Situation Awareness Framework
- Spatio-Temporal Knowledge Framework
5Intelligent Decision Support Based Upon Context
Context-Sensitive Service
Context-Sensitive Locations
userSmarts Services
Semantic Framework
Context
userSmarts Applications
Engineering
Finance
Critical I
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KeyValue Context
Ontology
Asset Inventory
6userSmarts for Emergency Response
- Our main application focus area
- Prototype built for Pax River NAS for medical
emergency response - Now building prototype for critical
infrastructure protection.
- Role of userSmarts in emergency response
- Situation awareness
- Intelligent command and control
- Near real-time utilization of intelligence
(observation) data - Context-sensitive autonomous processing of
real-time event data - Recommend response based upon situation context
- Deliver the right actionable info to the right
people
7Commitment to the future
- Image Matters investment in userSmarts is 1.5
million Dollars and we are still investing. - We are committed to sustain and grow the
consulting practice in the areas of Emergency
Response, Smart Web Services and Location-Based
Services (LBS). - To launch the Government Services Business Unit
we currently have two multi-million dollar
proposals in place that involve userSmarts.
8For Additional Information
Thank You!
Christopher Lakey christopherl_at_imagem.cc Dr.
Yaser Bishr yaserb_at_image.cc