Using a Military Information Ontology to Build Semantic Architecture Models for Airspace Systems
André X. C. N. Valente, Douglas Holmes, F.C. Alvidrez · 2005
In this paper, we present a Military Information Ontology (MilInfo) that has been developed to be used as a foundation for semantic architecture models for airspace systems. The military ontology is intended to be used by system architects working in the DoDAF framework, possibly using case tools. The ontology itself was developed in the Web Ontology Language (OWL), a W3C standard, and edited in Protégé/OWL, an open source tool that is a de facto standard for ontology creation. The MilInfo ontology is intended to support specification and querying of several aspects of military information, including content, significance, source, quality, analysis and constraints. To avoid reinventing the wheel, concepts from existing ontologies were adopted, notably the OpenCyc ontology.