Semantic-based Military Scenario Generation for Mission Planning

Abstract

Traditional manually establish a military scenario is a time-consuming and costly task. The question of representing the mission plan associated with military scenario domain does not yet have a single firm solution. While there is a clear need to capture the internal relationships among the military scenario resources, including unit, equipment, task, force, and COA. The main aim of this research was to investigate how OWL-based ontology, RDF-based metadata, Jena, and MSDL technologies can be used to develop Semantic-based Military Scenario Development platform (SMSD platform) in the military scenario domain. The SMSD platform is implemented based on the multiplelayered military scenario development framework. In order to demonstrate the feasibility of SMSD platform, the study shows how military commander can be assisted to semi-automatically generate a military mission plan with MSDL document.