Ontologies and tools for analysing and composing simulation confederations for the training and testing domains

Journal of Simulation

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 230-245

  Ford, R ^a   Martin, D ^a   Elenius, D ^a   Johnson, M ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

automated analysis; interoperability; ontology; rule languages

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SERVICES; ONTOLOGY; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA);

AUTOMATED ANALYSIS; AUTOMATED REASONING; COMPLETE SOLUTIONS; DATA INTEROPERABILITY; MILITARY TRAINING; SEMANTIC WEB RULE LANGUAGE (SWRL); TRAINING AND TESTING; WEB ONTOLOGY LANGUAGE;

INTEROPERABILITY;

EID: 80052242400     PISSN: 17477778     EISSN: 17477786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jos.2011.15     Document Type: Article

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