Image Matters LLC eGov Briefing

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Image Matters LLCeGov Briefing
Christopher Lakey Lead Engineer

• 214 S. King Street
• Leesburg, VA 20175
• www.imagemattersllc.com

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Image 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

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SBIR 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

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Our 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

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Intelligent 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
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userSmarts 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

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Commitment 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.

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For Additional Information
Thank You!
Christopher Lakey christopherl_at_imagem.cc Dr.
Yaser Bishr yaserb_at_image.cc