Software Development

CATS (Collaborative Airport Traffic System) – This is an airport simulation with a stochastic model of airport movement and departure times to study airport surface management strategies, including departure metering. It contains actual and forecast weather to study the collaborative performance of terminal airspace management by ARTCC and TRACON traffic managers (including MIT restrictions, fix closures and pre-departure reroutes) with ground controllers and a Departure Reservoir Coordinator.

C-MRE (Collaborative Multimedia Recording Environment) – A second generation extension of C-MRE used to study multimedia communication in military planning.

CSLANT (Collaborative SLide Annotation Tool) – A research prototype supporting asynchronous multimedia communication.

DETUR (Departure Evaluation Tool for Understanding Reroutes) – DETUR provides an analysis of all the route filings and amendments associated with given destinations for some departure airport and is being used to support the dynamic use of coded departure routes to deal with uncertainty about weather and traffic constraints. This is in beta testing by New York Center, Cleveland Center, Minneapolis Center, Delta, United, Continental and NetJets.

ARMADA (Airport Resource Management and Decision Aid) – This research prototype is a decision support tool to assist in expediting the movement of aircraft on the airport surface and on the integration of airport surface and airspace data in order to improve planning and tactical operations.

AIDA (Antibody IDentification Assistant) and TMT (Transfusion Medicine Tutor) – This pair of interactive critiquing systems is used to provide decision support in blood banks and to teach immunohematology. TMT is in use by over 100 teaching programs around the world.

General Aviation Performance Feedback System – This tool provides general aviation pilots and system analysts with detailed feedback on performance during general aviation flights.

POET (Post-Operations Evaluation Tool) – This is one of the major operational tools used by the airlines and FAA air traffic system to evaluate performance in the airspace system.

RAT (Reroute Advisory Tool) – This prototype supports the dissemination of information to NAS users and FAA facilities regarding air traffic advisories to deal with dynamic constraints in the airspace system. It has been used as the basis for developing an operational system by the FAA.

GAIT (Gait Analysis Instructional Tool) – This research prototype provides a multimedia environment for teaching diagnostic skills to orthopedic surgeons.

The Biology Sleuth – This prototype provides a problem-based learning environment for teaching problem solving skills to high school biology students.

Flight Planning Testbed – This prototype demonstrates the design of a graphical interface for flight planning by airline dispatchers, built upon a simulation of the performance of a Boeing 737 aircraft.

EP-X (Environmental Pollution eXpert) – This research prototype demonstrates the design and functioning of a knowledge-based system to support semantically-based search of the literature on environmental chemistry.