AKTiveSA: Supporting Civil-Military Information Integration in Military Operations Other than War

Author

Smart, Paul R. ; Russell, Alistair ; Shadbolt, Nigel R.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. & Comput. Sci., Southampton Univ.

fYear

2007

fDate

April 30 2007-May 3 2007

Firstpage

434

Lastpage

439

Abstract

The ability to integrate information from a variety of sources is a key ingredient of enhanced situation awareness in both conflict and non-conflict situations. Information integration is particularly important in military operations other than war (MOOTW) contexts because the range of relevant information sources is considerably more diverse than that seen in more conventional war-fighting operations. In this paper we provide an overview of a technical demonstrator system (the AKTiveSA TDS), which was developed as part of the UK MoD´s Defence Technology Centre (DTC) initiative. The demonstrator combines a variety of semantic technologies with advanced modes of visualization and interaction in order to highlight how extant Semantic Web technologies can be used to improve situation awareness and facilitate information integration in a simulated humanitarian relief scenario

Keywords

military computing; semantic Web; AKTiveSA; civil-military information integration; military operations; semantic Web; situation awareness; technical demonstrator system; Collaborative work; Context; Displays; Information resources; Military computing; OWL; Ontologies; Resource description framework; Semantic Web; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems, 2007. KIMAS 2007. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Waltham, MA

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0944-6

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0945-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/KIMAS.2007.369849

Filename

4227588