The problem addressed by Mediation to Implement Feedback in Training
(MIFT) is to customize the feedback from training
exercises by exploiting knowledge about the training scenario,
training objectives, and specific student/teacher needs. We achieve
this by inserting an intelligent mediation layer into the 
information flow from observations collected 
during training exercises to the display and user interface.
Knowledge about training objectives, scenarios, and tasks is maintained in
the mediating layer. A designer constraint is that domain experts must be able
to extend mediators by adding domain-specific knowledge that supports
additional aggregations, abstractions, and views of the results of training
exercises.
 
The MIFT mediation concept is intended to be integrated with existing military
training exercise management tools and reduce the cost of developing
and maintaining separate feedback and evaluation tools for every
training simulator and every set of customer needs. The MIFT
Architecture is designed as a set of independently reusable components
which interact with each other through standardized formalisms such as the
Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF) [Genesereth92] and Knowledge Query and
Manipulation Language (KQML).