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Ontology Negotiation in an Intelligent Agents Dynamic System for Military Resources and Capabilities Planning

Ontology Negotiation in an Intelligent Agents Dynamic System for Military Resources and Capabilities Planning
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Author(s): Marc Rabaey (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium), Céline Van Damme (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium), Eddy Vandijck (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)and Koenraad Vandenborre (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Copyright: 2007
Pages: 4
Source title: Managing Worldwide Operations and Communications with Information Technology
Source Editor(s): Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. (Information Resources Management Association, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-929-8.ch419
ISBN13: 9781599049298
EISBN13: 9781466665378

Abstract

The division Concepts of the Assistant Chief of Staff Evaluation (ACOS Eval) of the Belgian Ministry of Defence is making a study on the subject of “management by costs” based on an approach of capabilities. The original idea was based on the generation of future capabilities (investments and planning) and later extended to the operational use of the existing capabilities. In this paper an intelligent agents framework is proposed to simulate the possible scenarios of capabilities. Central to this subject is the ontology issue, where the Ontology Negotiation Protocol, as explained by Bailin and Truszkowski [Bailin 2001], is one of the solutions that should be further developed to resolve the problems related to the ontologies.

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