The Benefit of Ontologies for Interoperability of CCIS. (Easy, Quick and Cheap Solutions are Impossible, if Semantics of CCIS are Affected.)

Abstract

In spite of their efforts, no one has yet succeeded in making Command and Control Information Systems (CCIS) semantically interoperable. The harmonization of information systems is extremely expensive and, in many cases, it has not brought the expected improvements. Another approach to the problem of semantic harmonization may be necessary. According to the author, information exchange can be supported by knowledge-based linguistic algorithms that analyze incoming information and convert it according to the required semantic boundary conditions of the target database. These algorithms are based on ontologies, which are the formal descriptions of concepts and relationships of objects that are relevant for a domain. They describe how we see the world we are looking at. No changes to existing CCIS are necessary -- they may remain as they are.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA466798

Entities

People

  • Michael A. Wunder

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Battlefields
  • Command And Control
  • Conversion
  • Databases
  • Electronic Mail
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Interoperability
  • Language
  • Military Personnel
  • Models
  • Ontologies
  • Semantic Models
  • Semantics
  • Software Development
  • Standards

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Educational Psychology

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control