Building a semantic Web for securing the homeland

Author

Guzman, Nicolas J.

Author_Institution

Center for Emergency Preparedness, George Washington Univ. Med. Center, DC, USA

Volume

23

Issue

1

fYear

2004

Firstpage

71

Lastpage

80

Abstract

Substantial advances in the application of semantic Web technologies arc already occurring in digital library science and among the intelligence communities. Knowledge management for homeland security is one of the most important benefits that will derive from these technologies in the near future. In this article, some of the problems that the semantic Web aims to address, the building blocks that will enable its implementation, and some early efforts in the use of semantic Web technologies for homeland security are reviewed.

Keywords

XML; reviews; search engines; semantic Web; semantic networks; surveillance; terrorism; RDF; XML; description logics; frame-based systems; homeland security; information overload; knowledge representation; semantic Web technologies; Buildings; Decontamination; Internet; Knowledge management; Metasearch; Search engines; Semantic Web; Terrorism; Web pages; World Wide Web; Abstracting and Indexing as Topic; Artificial Intelligence; Bioterrorism; Database Management Systems; Databases, Factual; Information Storage and Retrieval; Internet; Natural Language Processing; Security Measures; Semantics; United States; User-Computer Interface; Vocabulary, Controlled;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0739-5175

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MEMB.2004.1297177

Filename

1297177