R&D Services

Modus Operandi’s 30+ year track record of developing innovative software technology provides the foundation for our products and customer solutions. We understand the latest technologies for solving data intensive challenges because we have been at the forefront of developing and applying them. Today we have coalesced our R&D activities to focus on enabling the realization of living intelligence—the partnering of humans and machines to share, collaborate on, and analyze data in support of mission-critical decision making.


Our research capabilities—listed below—cover the spectrum of the key technologies for orchestrating the power of human and machine analysis to drive smarter decisions.

Semantic Modeling and Integration

  • Ontologies
  • Model creation
  • Model alignment and mapping
  • Inference-driven on-demand query
  • Domain and subject-matter-expert knowledge elicitation

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

  • Semantic reasoning / logical approaches for automated reasoning
  • Rule generation
  • Auto-classification techniques
  • Partial-pattern recognition
  • Supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms

Information Fusion

  • High-speed multi-source data ingest, cleansing, enrichment, and correlation
  • Metadata tagging
  • Data alignment and integration
  • Large-scale / cloud-scale graph generation
  • Auto-extraction and auto-classification
  • Common referencing of observational sources

User Interface Design & Usability

  • Usability assessment
  • Highly linked knowledge search and discovery
  • Semantic wiki
  • Graph-based search and visualizations
  • Map clients / servers
  • Small form factor devices

Human-Machine Orchestration / Analytics

  • Object-Based Production (OBP)
  • Adaptive case management (workflow)
  • Intelligent (contextually aware) data analytics
  • Descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics
  • Pattern-of-life analysis
  • Graph heuristics (matching, association, reasoning)
  • Social Network Analysis (SNA)
  • Temporal analysis
  • Content similarity analysis

Text Analytics

  • Text analysis and tagging
  • Automated co-referencing
  • Part-of-speech tagging
  • Lexical construction