Standard Ontological Behavior Representations to Support Composability

摘要

Currently, significant resources within the Department of Defense (DoD) are invested in developing Computer Generated Force (CGF) behaviors for various simulations. Unfortunately, that entails high costs for developing new behavior representations for each new simulation or behavior and repeatedly verifying, validating, and accrediting those behaviors in their different forms. The Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO), through the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) as technical agent, advertised for research efforts to address those issues [1]. Subsequently, Dynamics Research Corporation (DRC) was selected to (1) investigate the use of ontologies for describing both primitive behavior metadata and composite behaviors and then (2) demonstrate how they could be used for composing standardized behaviors in the future. The overall research goal was to enable the reduction of time and resources required in the future for both the development of CGF behaviors and the Verification, Validation and Accreditation (VV&A) of those CGF behaviors through enhancing the capability to reuse CGF behaviors between and within simulations [2]. The ontologies developed and the implementation of them in the Prototype Behavior Composer Demonstration Tool will be briefly described herein and displayed/demonstrated at the conference.