Integrating Military Systems using Semantic Web Technologies and Lightweight Agents
Jonas Halvorsen, Bjørn Jervell Hansen · 2011
In order to attain the coveted information superiority in NATO Network Enabled Capability (NNEC), the challenge of integrating information from different sources in this highly dynamic environment needs to be solved. In this paper, we propose to address this challenge by using a system of lightweight cooperative hybrid agents that rely on Semantic Web technologies. The primary objective when conducting operations according to NATO Network Enabled Capability (NNEC) is to attain information superiority. NNEC is based on an idea of a common information space through which the participating information systems supply information for others to utilize, and retrieve the information needed according to their role (Buckman 2005). In order to realize this idea, the challenge of integrating information from heterogeneous sources in a