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Semantic web for net-enabled decision making

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The paper introduces a Semantic Web approach for net-enabled decision making. The Semantic Web ontology language OWL-DL is used to specify the vocabulary and relationships linking situational and decision making semantics for the decision domain. The knowledge is stored as an ontology library of templates where each template is a parameterized causal model fragment that can be instantiated to situation-specific Bayesian networks for course of action reasoning. Our semantic web approach allows semantic interoperability in joint distributed decision making with multiple information sources. The approach shortens the decision cycle and reduces the cognitive burden on the decision-maker. The paper illustrates the approach on a prototype application for course of action in military effects based operations.

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ONISW '08: Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Ontologies and information systems for the semantic web
October 2008
124 pages
ISBN:9781605582559
DOI:10.1145/1458484
  • General Chair:
  • Ramez Elmasri,
  • Program Chairs:
  • Martin Doerr,
  • Mathias Brochhausen,
  • Hyoil Han
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  1. Bayesian networks
  2. course of action
  3. effects-based operations
  4. net-enabled
  5. ontology
  6. semantic web

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CIKM08: Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
October 30, 2008
California, Napa Valley, USA

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