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Increased focus on multi-functional and multi-national operations brings new requirements to military command and control, in addition to other capability requirements. Parallel but separate from this development, interoperability has been of major concern within Modeling and Simulation (M&S) for years, especially in connection with standards for distributed simulations, e.g. High Level Architecture (HLA). Both areas share a need to create configurations of systems where elements of information exchanged are interpreted similarly among all participating parties, preserving the intended meaning (i.e. semantic interoperability). An effort to address this need is currently under development within NATO IST-094, Semantic Interoperability Framework (SIF), which includes tool and methodology support for harmonising data/information models on a semantic level, as well as mediators to translate between heterogeneous abstractions. The framework builds on a knowledge-based approach utilizing emerging semantic technologies, such as ontologies. In this paper we investigate how, and to what extent, concepts, solutions and experiences from the distributed simulation community can help fulfill the requirements of the SIF. Based on this, a common process is presented which is aimed at governing the development and execution of system configurations to meet expressed business requirements.

Increased focus on multi-functional and multi-national operations brings new requirements to military command and control, in addition to other capability requirements. Parallel but separate from this development, interoperability has been of major concern within Modeling and Simulation (M&S) for years, especially in connection with standards for distributed simulations, e.g. High Level Architecture (HLA). Both areas share a need to create configurations of systems where elements of information exchanged are interpreted similarly among all participating parties, preserving the intended meaning (i.e. semantic interoperability). An effort to address this need is currently under development within NATO IST-094, Semantic Interoperability Framework (SIF), which includes tool and methodology support for harmonising data/information models on a semantic level, as well as mediators to translate between heterogeneous abstractions. The framework builds on a knowledge-based approach utilizing emerging semantic technologies, such as ontologies. In this paper we investigate how, and to what extent, concepts, solutions and experiences from the distributed simulation community can help fulfill the requirements of the SIF. Based on this, a common process is presented which is aimed at governing the development and execution of system configurations to meet expressed business requirements.

Increased focus on multi-functional and multi-national operations brings new requirements to military command and control, in addition to other capability requirements. Parallel but separate from this development, interoperability has been of major concern within Modeling and Simulation (M&S) for years, especially in connection with standards for distributed simulations, e.g. High Level Architecture (HLA). Both areas share a need to create configurations of systems where elements of information exchanged are interpreted similarly among all participating parties, preserving the intended meaning (i.e. semantic interoperability). An effort to address this need is currently under development within NATO IST-094, Semantic Interoperability Framework (SIF), which includes tool and methodology support for harmonising data/information models on a semantic level, as well as mediators to translate between heterogeneous abstractions. The framework builds on a knowledge-based approach utilizing emerging semantic technologies, such as ontologies. In this paper we investigate how, and to what extent, concepts, solutions and experiences from the distributed simulation community can help fulfill the requirements of the SIF. Based on this, a common process is presented which is aimed at governing the development and execution of system configurations to meet expressed business requirements.

Increased focus on multi-functional and multi-national operations brings new requirements to military command and control, in addition to other capability requirements. Parallel but separate from this development, interoperability has been of major concern within Modeling and Simulation (M&S) for years, especially in connection with standards for distributed simulations, e.g. High Level Architecture (HLA). Both areas share a need to create configurations of systems where elements of information exchanged are interpreted similarly among all participating parties, preserving the intended meaning (i.e. semantic interoperability). An effort to address this need is currently under development within NATO IST-094, Semantic Interoperability Framework (SIF), which includes tool and methodology support for harmonising data/information models on a semantic level, as well as mediators to translate between heterogeneous abstractions. The framework builds on a knowledge-based approach utilizing emerging semantic technologies, such as ontologies. In this paper we investigate how, and to what extent, concepts, solutions and experiences from the distributed simulation community can help fulfill the requirements of the SIF. Based on this, a common process is presented which is aimed at governing the development and execution of system configurations to meet expressed business requirements.