The tracker, which is oriented towards vehicles, mathematically determines which vehicle observations are most likely the same vehicle. Then the counter-intelligence teams could take pictures in the field and send them to the database. Also, if time allows, we will replicate each database across multiple machines. Then the application could use RPI's network sensing techniques and Dartmouth's planning algorithms to decide which machines can answer the query the quickest. The information-clustering algorithms will be used to present the query results.
Mobile agents provide the underlying infrastructure for the application.
We will use the sixteen Dartmouth laptops that have Digital RoamAbout wireless Ethernet, a few Harvard laptops that have MetriCom radio modems, and as many server machines as are needed for the databases. All of the laptops will have GPS units. This phase also demonstrates the tracker, which is interesting even though it is not part of the proposal. Not all of the databases will be located at Thayer. At least one will be in the computer science department, and at least one will be at Harvard.