Effective Information Management in Joint Operations based on Semantic Technologies.

摘要

Sharing information between collaborating military assets by using modern information-and communication technologies is a core principle for complex distributed military operations. In this paper we introduce an Information Management System which combines OWLOntologies and automated reasoning with Publish/Subscribe-Systems, providing for a shared but decoupled data model. We emphasise the novel application and lack of practical experience of using Semantic Web technologies in areas other than originally intended. That is, aiding decision support and software design in the context of a mission scenario for an unmanned system. Experiments within a complex simulation environment show the immediate bene ts of a semantic informationmanagement and-dissemination platform: Clear separation of concerns in code and data model, increased systems re-usability and extensibility as well as simplified integration of external information sources.