Developing Standard Ontological Behavior Representations to Support Composability

Abstract

Dynamics Research Corporation (DRC) supported the Defense Modeling and Simulation (DMSO) research initiative for Human Behavior Representation by investigating the use of the Web Ontology Language (OWL) for standardizing the representation of Computer Generated Force (CGF) behaviors within simulations to support composability for reuse. Currently, significant resources within the Department of Defense (DoD) are invested in developing CGF behaviors independently for various simulations. Many of the newer simulation systems are using hierarchies for representing simulations where simulation specific primitive behaviors are combined in a temporal framework to compose complex behaviors. The use of these composite behaviors, describing and relating the primitive behaviors in a formal ontology, results in sophisticated behavior representations and promotes reuse of behaviors, as they are themselves independent of the simulation implementation. This research project developed OWL ontologies for describing both primitive behavior metadata and composite behaviors and a prototype within the OneSAF Objective System (OOS) simulation demonstrating how they could be used for composing standardized behaviors in the future.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA437490

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People

  • Lee W. Lacy
  • William J. Gerber

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Classification
  • Composite Materials
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Contracts
  • Corporations
  • Department Of Defense
  • Governments
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Hierarchies
  • Human Behavior
  • Language
  • Markup Languages
  • Simulations
  • Standards
  • Xml

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  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation
  • Software Engineering.