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Study on battlespace ontology construction approach
Author(s) -
Song Junfeng,
Zhang Weiming,
Xiao Weidong,
Tang Daquan
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
international journal of intelligent systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.291
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1098-111X
pISSN - 0884-8173
DOI - 10.1002/int.20110
Subject(s) - battlespace , ontology , computer science , information retrieval , computer security , philosophy , epistemology
In Network Centric Warfare, the sensor network's capability is much stronger than ever; the force can get a mass of information about battlespace in real or near‐real time. How to utilize the information about battlespace effectively and transform the information superiority into knowledge superiority is a key problem for NCW research. To solve this problem, first we need to establish a suitable knowledge infrastructure. In this article, battlespace ontology is considered as the knowledge infrastructure of NCW, and we propose a battlespace ontology construction approach based on OWL, which consists of two parts: formal ontology construction approach to construct subdomain ontologies of battlespace and formal ontology integration approach to integrate subdomain ontologies of battlespace. Then a concrete application of the approach to an air combat battlespace is given. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Int Syst 20: 1219–1231, 2005.