Using a Military Information Ontology to Build Semantic Architecture Models for Airspace Systems

Author

Valente, Andre ; Holmes, Douglas ; Alvidrez, Frank C.

Author_Institution

Knowledge Syst. Ventures, Los Angeles, CA

fYear

2005

fDate

5-12 March 2005

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

In this paper, we present a Military Information Ontology (MilInfo) that has been developed to be used as a foundation for semantic architecture models for airspace systems. The military ontology is intended to be used by system architects working in the DoDAF framework, possibly using case tools. The ontology itself was developed in the Web ontology language (OWL), a W3C standard, and edited in Protege/OWL, an open source tool that is a de facto standard for ontology creation. The MilInfo ontology is intended to support specification and querying of several aspects of military information, including content, significance, source, quality, analysis and constraints. To avoid reinventing the wheel, concepts from existing ontologies were adopted, notably the OpenCyc ontology

Keywords

information systems; knowledge representation languages; military computing; ontologies (artificial intelligence); public domain software; semantic Web; Defense Department Architecture Framework; DoDAF framework; OWL language; OpenCyc ontology; Protege open source tool; Web ontology language; airspace systems; military information ontology; semantic architecture models; Books; Information analysis; Knowledge based systems; Military aircraft; Military standards; OWL; Ontologies; Standards development; Unified modeling language; Wheels;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference, 2005 IEEE

Conference_Location

Big Sky, MT

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8870-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.2005.1559635

Filename

1559635