Monitoring, Analysis, and Interpretation Tool Arsenal (MAITA) Project
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/projects/maita/

Monitoring, analysis, and interpretation (MAI) tasks constitute central elements of many important applications. These tasks vary in scope from narrow process-control monitoring, which require attending only to a fixed set of observable conditions, to national security intelligence analysis, which must attend to a broad range of observations, information, and actionable conditions that cannot be enumerated beforehand. Although commercial knowledge-based system (KBS) technology has proven successful for the narrower process-control tasks, current technology does not support very well the broader, open-ended monitoring and interpretation processes. New information regularly leads analysts to attend to new classes of information and new potential threats, but current KBS technology depends on small groups of system developers hand-crafting carefully circumscribed knowledge bases, and does not permit distributed communities of users, even those highly knowledgable in the domain, to exploit separately-developed large-scale knowledge bases or to add new analysis knowledge and methods to these knowledge bases in many small increments. The Monitoring, Analysis, and Interpretation Tool Arsenal (MAITA) Project seeks to build on existing and under-development tools for rapid, distributed (web-mediated) construction of ontologies and knowledge bases to develop tools that, in the hands of system developers, will enable rapid construction of knowledge-based MAI systems, and in the hands of communities of users, will enable ready extension of such systems to cover new knowledge and methods. To date, the MAITA Project has explored construction of monitoring systems for intensive care units, battlefield movements, and computer security. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.