IIDS: intelligent information dissemination server

Under initial funding from DARPA's intelligent integration of information project, the IIDS project team is enhancing the BADD information dissemination server (IDS) to automatically filter and package information and to anticipate future warfighter's associate (WFA) information needs. Our enhancements to the IDS improve both the accuracy and timeliness of "smart information push" to WFAs. These enhancements are based on the insertion of information mediation, integration technologies, information source wrapping, and ontology modeling developed under the I3 program. By applying these technologies to the IDS, "smart push" delivers just the right data, to just the right place, at just the right time. This paper describes two elements of the IIDS architecture: information anticipation and product packaging.