Formalizing Battle Management Language: A grammar for specifying orders

Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop 2006

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 403-415

  Schade, Ulrich ^a   Hieb, Michael R ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER FKIE   (Germany)

^b Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study   (United States)

Author keywords

Battle Management Language (BML); Command and Control (C2); Command and Control Information Exchange Data Model (C2IEDM); Command and Control Simulation Interface Language (CCSIL); Grammar; Linguistics; Orders; Reports; Robotics

Indexed keywords

BATTLE MANAGEMENT LANGUAGES; COMMAND AND CONTROL; COMMAND-AND-CONTROL INFORMATION EXCHANGE DATA MODELS; GRAMMAR; INTERFACE LANGUAGES; ORDERS; REPORTS;

AUTOMATION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTEROPERABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MODELS; ROBOTICS; SEMANTICS; SPECIFICATIONS;

COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 36048964805     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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