Evolving Use of Distributed Semantics to Achieve Net-centricity

Abstract

For the US Department of Defense (DoD)s efforts to achieve net-centricity, more intelligent ways of handling information must be pursued, in particular using machine- interpretable semantic models, i.e., ontologies. One approach, which weve adopted in current and emerging research projects, is to combine Semantic Web technologies with logic programming, thereby utilizing standards-based ontologies and rules and yet ensuring that the runtime automated reasoning over these is efficient. In this paper, we discuss our current Semantic Environment for Enterprise Reasoning (SEER) architecture, which combines an Enterprise Service Bus with our Semantic Web Ontologies and Rules for Interoperability with Efficient Reasoning (SWORIER) system. SWORIER converts OWL ontologies and SWRL rules into logic programming, thereby enabling efficient runtime reasoning using Prolog. We also briefly discuss potential enhancements to such an environment, including the use of constraint logic, meta-reasoning, and hybrid logic.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2007
Accession Number
AD1107249

Entities

People

  • Deborah Nichols
  • Dru Mccandless
  • Karen Fox
  • Leo Obrst
  • Mike Prausa
  • Rick Sward
  • Suzette Stoutenburg

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence Computing
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Corporations
  • Department Of Defense
  • Environment
  • Information Systems
  • Language
  • Logic
  • Models
  • Ontologies
  • Reasoning
  • Semantic Models
  • Standards

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Software Engineering.