An architecture for providing information anytime, anywhere and on any device-an ontological approach

An architecture to extend the USAF Joint Battlespace Infosphere (JBI) publish and subscribe paradigm is described. The architecture emphasizes the user side of the JBI architecture where the users' computing devices can vary substantially in bandwidth, processing capability, screen size, and connection type. Today's Internet user can connect with the net at any time using a wide variety of devices. Our emphasis is on designing a infrastructure that will intelligently support the efficient rapid access and dissemination of distributed knowledge base repositories to a client independent of computing device or connection. The architecture is presented via five high level designs and views. Our goal is to design and develop an infrastructure that will efficiently and rapidly provide data, knowledge and information to a dynamic user. A hardware ontology is presented for aiding our architecture to provide information tailored for any device a dynamic user may acquire.