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MindCollect: An information needs management system for coalition situational awareness, sensemaking, decision making, and mission integration

MindCollect: An information needs management system for coalition situational awareness, sensemaking, decision making, and mission integration
MindCollect: An information needs management system for coalition situational awareness, sensemaking, decision making, and mission integration
An efficient mechanism for bottom-up elicitation from domain experts is a key enabler for producing meaningful information requirements specifications. This paper describes “MindCollect,” an information-requirements management system that consists of: (a) An Information Needs Profiling Module for Q&A-based elicitation and gathering of operational user tasks and associated information needs; (b) Answer dataset management; and, (c) Automated formulation of coherent task narratives (aka user stories) using techniques inspired by Natural Language Generation approaches. MindCollect has proven efficient and effective in the bottom-up elicitation of requirements from domain experts. The use of MindCollect for determination of requirements in a civil emergency management project is described. Finally, we describe future research directions, including the potential for leveraging Linked Open Data.
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University of Edinburgh
Kamien, David
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Kelly, Michael
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Omitola, Temitope
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Wills, Gary
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Kamien, David
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Kelly, Michael
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Omitola, Temitope
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Wills, Gary
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Kamien, David, Kelly, Michael, Omitola, Temitope and Wills, Gary (2016) MindCollect: An information needs management system for coalition situational awareness, sensemaking, decision making, and mission integration. In Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations 2016. University of Edinburgh. pp. 1-9 .

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Abstract

An efficient mechanism for bottom-up elicitation from domain experts is a key enabler for producing meaningful information requirements specifications. This paper describes “MindCollect,” an information-requirements management system that consists of: (a) An Information Needs Profiling Module for Q&A-based elicitation and gathering of operational user tasks and associated information needs; (b) Answer dataset management; and, (c) Automated formulation of coherent task narratives (aka user stories) using techniques inspired by Natural Language Generation approaches. MindCollect has proven efficient and effective in the bottom-up elicitation of requirements from domain experts. The use of MindCollect for determination of requirements in a civil emergency management project is described. Finally, we describe future research directions, including the potential for leveraging Linked Open Data.

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Published date: 2016

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Local EPrints ID: 432763
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/432763
PURE UUID: 67bc9f61-ccf9-464e-9100-9c3353c14ff9
ORCID for Gary Wills: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-5771-4088

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Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 02:43

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Author: David Kamien
Author: Michael Kelly
Author: Gary Wills ORCID iD

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