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Evolution
One of the objectives of the Semantic Monitoring of Cyberspace (SMC) project is to develop mechanisms to adapt the monitoring system to the changing profile of threats additionally taking into account the characteristics of the information sources. Regardless of the considered approach to the issues of maintaining the system up-to-date, in the consequences, all of them in different ways can be resolved to the reference of states of the system to the perception of the threat, as the primary concept in the project ontology.
In the chosen case scenario for the project i.e.: the detection of illegal sale of medicines via Internet, different approaches to the evolution of the threat profile may be highlighted. One can refer to the general concept of management changes. The need to introduce changes within profile definition may result from the following reasons:
- changing the formalism of representation,
- changing information needs of the user
- changing the very subject representation.
The maintenance of this type of system to keep up with its surrounding by customizing its basic components – most notably the threat model - is a factor of utter importance due to its numerous links with the dynamic environment of a heterogeneous Web sources. On the account of the system architecture, a number of dependencies between its components have been emphasized. These dependencies indicate how the propagation of changes may follow within the system by being triggered by changes in other internal elements. The basic components and the mentioned relations are shown in the diagram.
In addition, during the work on the development of a prototype solution, there are a number of functionalities scrupulously selected that support the evolutionary mechanisms regarded as most helpful for effective monitoring of cyberspace. Those functionalities will be implemented in the course of further work on the prototype.