ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with information exploitation of distributed multimedia content that requires revisions of the Joint Directors of Laboratories (JDL) model for machine analytics, information management, and user contextual reasoning over enterprise applications. It focuses on stakeholders who are building information fusion systems that support information exploitation (InfoEx). InfoEx considers the utility of information, probability of acquiring such information via candidate action plans, and costs of plans, all of which are time dependent. The chapter presents a notional example of data processing using physics-derived and human-derived fusion for both a JDL-type instantiation and suggestions for the JDL-based information exploitation. It then details the enterprise, information management, and layered service constructs to support management and exploitation of information of context. The current trends in information fusion (IF) are: data mining, enterprise architectures, and communications. InfoEx involves two processes: integrating and managing the data, and analyzing the data through IF and data mining.
