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The use of Extensible Markup Language (XML) Schemas to structure data is examined for its potential to promote effective, self-organizing, application-independent and platform-independent information exchange systems. As data resources become increasingly numerous and voluminous, consistent information access and exchange will be achieved by applyi...
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... extensible, tree-based design of XML allows for the development of multiple articulation ontologies that can all be verified, or validated, using a common schema. Figure 1 illustrates the role of XML Schemas as interface-control measures in a complex system of disparate and heterogeneous databases. This example depicts how XML Schema can create transformations using the Extensible Stylesheet Language for Transformation (XSLT) [4], which are used to convert from one database format to another. ...
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This paper describes Knowledge Management for Distributed-Tracking (KMDT), which is an ongoing research and development project to explore methods to improve military functions in the battle space, such as command, control, and decision support. It features a hypothetical use-case scenario that shows how knowledge-management technologies, such as on-tologies and intelligent agents, can be used to improve battle-space awareness and the decision-making proc-ess in command centers with respect to distributed tracking and threat identification of platforms. The KMDT sensor ontology is based partly on concepts described in the MIL-STD-2525B and STANAG 4420 specifications, which define symbology to rep-resent level-one data-fusion information, such as the classification of platforms and targets in the battle space. The paper includes a discussion of ontology-integration examples of this with this symbology as it relates to fusion and tracking.
“Global Interoperability Using Semantics, Standards, Science and Technology” is a concept that is predicated on the assumption that the semantic integration, frameworks and standards that support information exchange, and advances in science and technology can enable information-systems interoperability for many diverse users. This paper recommends technologies and approaches for enabling interoperability across a wide spectrum of political, geographical, and organizational levels, e.g. coalition, federal, state, tribal, regional, non government, and private. These recommendations represent steps toward the goal of the Semantic Web, where computers understand information on web sites through knowledge representations, agents, and ontologies.
