Ontology-Based Air Traffic Management (ATM) Systems
Nan Li, Leilei Zhang, Xiaohao Xu · 2010
"ATM integration" is the new trend for the development of Next-Generation Air Transportation System (NGATS). The main problem of "ATM integration" is information sharing and interaction of the heterogeneous systems. Standardization and formalization of the domain ontologies provide a good solution for the interoperability information system. This article introduces a concept of ontology to the ATM system, and then it creates an ATM domain ontology and analyzes the relationship in the clear expression concepts. Ontology-based systems prove a fundamental solution for the information sharing and integration issues which are faced by the ATM systems integration. In this paper, we illustrate an ontology-based ATM system framework in order to provide a unified set of semantic knowledge for ATM domain. This measure solves the ambiguity problem in understanding and provides technical support for the ATM integration.