Developing Ontologies for Interoperability of Systems of Systems
John S. Osmundson, Thomas V. Huynh, Paul Shaw · 2005
Engineering of systems of systems must meet, among other challenges, the information interoperability requirements. In this research we develop ontologies and employ process modeling (Osmundson 2004) to engineer a system of systems with robust information interoperability. Ontological engineering is an approach that has been used successfully to solve system of systems information interoperability requirements in number of different application domain areas. There are numerous ways to develop ontologies and recent applications of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) for ontology representation indicate convergence of UML and ontologies (Kogut et al 2002). In this work we represent a system of systems in a UML-like representation from which we develop an ontology to support information interoperability.