Harmonia proposes a novel approach to automatically generating tactical human/computer interface (HCI) code and object design data from the user interface design developed through usability prototyping. This approach uses the User Interface MarkupLanguage (UIML), an open specification language… More

Harmonia proposes an innovative approach to improving product quality and reducing time and cost of transitioning prototypes to production. This approach uses the User Interface Markup Language (UIML), an open specification language being standardized byOASIS, as a user interface design language… More

Harmonia proposes a novel approach to automatically generating tactical human/computer interface (HCI) code and object design data from the user interface design developed through usability prototyping. This approach uses the User Interface Markup Language (UIML), an open specification language… More

Harmonia offers a novel approach to realizing software re-use through the use of functional primitives stored as XML. Harmonia offers a solution that allows developers to build libraries of primitives such as design algorithms and software models. These primitives are stored in a… More

Harmonia proposes a methodology to import legacy source code into a programming language independent XML representation through a process of rule-driven transformation. The project includes design of the Legacy Code & User Interface Markup Language (LCUIML), an extension of the User Interface… More

Harmonia, Inc. proposes to address human/computer interface (HCI) issues faced by the DD(X) program by investigating new and "breakthrough" software tools that utilize the User Interface Markup Language (UIML). The proposed tools interface with commercial off-the-shelf products and are designed to… More

Harmonia, Inc. proposes an innovative approach to modernize and integrate new HCIs into legacy software. The approach centers on a software design tool called Computer-Assisted Design-Human/Computer Interface (CAD-HCI) that supports an enhanced, user-centered, UIML-based user interface design… More

Reusing legacy software is a stumbling block that impedes cost-effective creation of new or updated software applications. This problem is squarely addressed here by a key innovation: rather than analyze legacy code from Ada, C++, FORTRAN, assembly, or other widely used languages directly, we… More

Harmonia, Inc. proposes to address Human/Computer Interface (HCI) issues faced by the DD(X) program by investigating new and "breakthrough" software tools that utilize the User Interface Markup Language (UIML). The proposed tools interface with commercial off-the-shelf products and are designed to… More

To reduce the effort of ensuring that multi-media training reflects tactical system operation and actual Fleet use, we propose innovative technology to help automate production of training material, based on emerging standards (Sharable Content Object Reference Model [SCORM], User Interface Markup… More

A key to the Navy's Open Architecture (OA) Program is the ability to identify common functions across surface and subsurface platforms and to transform the corresponding legacy software into reusable components for a component reuse repository. Simply rewriting legacy code to achieve the… More

We propose developing the Software Analysis through Visual Extraction (SAVE) tool, a visual programming and architecture plugin to Harmonia's Legacy Analysis Workbench (LAW). SAVE is specifically targeted at providing new functionality to model, visualize, and extract design artifacts and… More

We propose developing the Software Analysis through Visual Extraction (SAVE) tool, a visual programming and architecture adaptation plugin to Harmonia's Legacy Analysis Workbench (LAW). SAVE is specifically targeted at providing new functionality to model, visualize, and extract design artifacts… More

Harmonia, Inc. is pleased to offer this proposal to develop the Software Analysis through Visual Extraction (SAVE) tool, a visual programming and architecture tool that works in conjunction with Harmonia's Legacy Analysis Workbench (LAW). SAVE is specifically targeted at modeling, visualizing, and… More

Harmonia's eXtensible Scenario Definition Meta-language (xScenario) represents scenarios that drive models and simulations (M&S) in XML. Harmonia's solution allows model and simulation developers to use xScenario as the one language for defining scenarios and simulations to facilitate… More

Using our 50+ person-years of experience with business process (BP) modeling, BPEL, SOA, and HCI design, we propose a BP Transformation Tool for warfighters and other SMEs that will cut time to create BPs up to 80% and training time to learn tool as much as 40-fold, compared to industry-leading BP… More

Using our 50+ person-years of experience with testing, XML processing, and Eclipse for DoD, we aim to largely automate compliance testing and catalog artifacts by providing a framework to integrate disparate compliance tools, for JTRS-TD to reduce time/effort by at least 30% over the tested… More

To reduce the effort of ensuring that multi-media training reflects tactical system operation and actual Fleet use, we propose innovative technology to help automate production of training material, based on emerging standards (Sharable Content Object Reference Model [SCORM], User Interface Markup… More

Harmonia, Inc., a woman-owned HUB-Zone company, proposes in Phase II of Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) topic N05-163, to dramatically reduce time and cost by changing the way complex enterprise applications are assembled. Leveraging past SBIR work, Harmonia proposes to develop a system… More

The ability of warfighters controlling key Ballistic Missile Defense Systems to do their jobs comes down to the effectiveness of the Command, Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs). No matter how sophisticated the hardware and algorithms "behind the… More

Under MDA07-005 Harmonia, Inc., in partnership with Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems (SAS), will build a system to cost effectively modernize legacy information, sensor, space platform, and weapons systems such as the Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) written in languages such as… More

Using our 50+ person-years of experience with presentation briefing for Fortune 500 companies and DoD, XML processing, and HCI tool design, we aim to dramatically improve the effectiveness, analytic quality, and accuracy of conveying complex ideas, plans, quantitative analysis, and concepts through… More

In a large complex software development life-cycle, the plethora of questions that people in different roles might ask is wide and varied. A developer may want to know what sections of code may break if a class definition is moved. A project manager may want to assess where the areas of greatest… More

We develop a same time/different place collaborative ability to promote shared awareness in teams working in rapid response operations with fluid and rich data. Our goal is to better understand cognitive processes of team collaboration, and use the understanding to drive the design of a… More

Harmonia Inc., in partnership with Raytheon, will design, prototype, and demonstrate a technical and governance Harmonization Framework (HF) to design and version Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) interfaces. HF addresses a fundamental SOA problem: even though SOA may start with a coherent… More

Using our 50+ person-years of experience with testing, XML processing, and Eclipse for DoD, we aim to largely automate compliance testing and catalog artifacts by providing a framework to integrate disparate compliance tools, for JTRS-TD to reduce time/effort by at least 30% over the tested… More

With the increased proliferation of software applications, there exists a need to ensure that an orderly and efficient mechanism exists for configuration control of these applications. This project will build an innovative solution that utilizes Web 2.0 social networking concepts. The solution… More

Under MDA07-005 Harmonia, Inc., in partnership with Raytheon SAS, is building a system named uReuseT to cost effectively modernize legacy information, sensor, space platform, and weapons systems such as the Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) written in legacy languages like Ada. We are… More

Harmonia addresses challenge area 3 in DARPA Phase I SBIR topic SB092-006, Digital Analysis Computing Software (DACS) Solutions for the Supply Chain: software application distribution solutions. Harmonia is proposing to accelerate a fundamental historical transformation in the way the world does… More

We create LiquidBriefing, a collaborative system that helps knowledge workers advance beyond using the trio of email, Microsoft Word, and PowerPoint for reporting and briefings. LiquidBriefing assists organizational knowledge management by capturing ideas at the time of origin, and supports a… More

Using our 50+ person-years of experience with business process (BP) modeling, BPEL, SOA, and HCI design, we propose a real-time battle management solution for MDA that will coordinate with multiple dispersed and disparate weapon platforms in achieving accurate and reliable kill results for layered… More

The Navy currently uses a Smart Card based stored value system to provide sailors with the ability to make purchases on board a ship This system, called Navy Cash, has been implemented on a majority of the ships but the Navy is encountering problems of cost and maintenance is looking for an… More

With the increased proliferation of software applications, there exists a need to ensure that an orderly and efficient mechanism exists to (1) shorten the time required for computational packages to transition from pre-publication algorithms to packaged products; (2) build, package, and distribute… More

Harmonia addresses challenges in integrating complex systems for NetCentric computing by solving service design / versioning problems. Versioning is a major stumbling block for defining, creating, and maintaining a functional, dynamic, composeable Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Service… More

This project addresses an operational need in the Navy to improve ship and weapon system affordability. Part of affordability is building software. The current method of designing, implementing and testing Human-Computer Interfaces (HCIs), and producing documentation for HCIs, requires coordinating… More

  Harmonia’s proposed work will be instrumental in accelerating the maturity of IntelliDrive applications that avoid intersection collisions.  This proposal unlocks the storehouse of modeling detail in TEXAS under the cost-free GPL copyleft license to organizations building… More

  Harmonia’s proposed work will be instrumental in accelerating the maturity of IntelliDrive applications that avoid intersection collisions.  This proposal unlocks the storehouse of modeling detail in TEXAS under the cost-free GPL copyleft license to organizations building… More

Our goal is to create a demonstrable prototype system at the end of Phase I which fuses IntelliDrive (SM) data with data from traditional inductive loop detectors and uses this data in a modified NEMA TS2 traffic signal controller within eTEXAS Model for Intersection Traffic to reduce… More

We accelerate the maturity of IntelliDrive applications and unlock the storehouse of modeling detail in TEXAS to organizations building IntelliDrive applications J2735/Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) signal controllers and on-board IntelliDrive systems. We add four SAE J2735 messages:… More

The intelligence gathering community needs automated data mining and discovery of causal relationships in unstructured textual documents. Harmonia proposes to fill this need via our Raconteur system. Raconteur can benefit an analyst by guiding them in automated discovery of unknown document… More