Requesting distant robotic action: An ontology for naming and action identification for planning on the Mars Exploration Rover Mission

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 75-104

  Wales, Roxana C ^a   Shalin, Valerie L ^b   Bass, Deborah S ^c  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed work; Domain model; Ethnography; Grounded theory; Knowledge elicitation; Planning technology; Work practice

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; NASA; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; ROVERS;

DISTRIBUTED WORK; DOMAIN MODEL; ETHNOGRAPHY; GROUNDED THEORY; MARS EXPLORATION ROVER MISSIONS; ONTOLOGY'S; PLANNING TECHNOLOGY; ROBOTIC ACTIONS; SOFTWARE-TOOLS; WORK PRACTICES;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 58149464535     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00116     Document Type: Article

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