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The Design and Implementation of Ontology for Simulation based Architecture Framework (ONT-AF) in Military Domain  

Kwon, Youngmin (Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Sohn, Mye (Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Lee, Wookey (Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Inha University)
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Journal of Information Technology and Architecture / v.9, no.3, 2012 , pp. 233-241 More about this Journal
Abstract
Architecture framework (AF) is a guideline to define components needed to develop and operate enterprise architecture (EA), and to define relationships among the components. There are many architecture frameworks to operate EA of governments and businesses such as Zachman framework, DoDAF, TOGAF, FEAF, and TEAF. DoDAF is the most representative AF to support the development of the EA in the military domain. DoDAF is composed of eight viewpoints and 40 views that are affiliated with the viewpoints. To develop an AF for a specific goal, system architects decide a set of views. Furthermore, they determine data that are needed for a view modeling. However, views and data in DoDAF are structurally inter-related explicitly and/or implicitly. So, developing an AF for a specific goal is going to be a project to be carried out over a long haul. To reduce the burden of its development, in this paper, we develop ONT-SAF (Ontology for DoDAF) that can infer inter-relationships like referential and transitive relationships and the sequences among the views. Furthermore, to promote reusability and consistency of the views and the data within an AF, we adopt the view-data separation strategy. ONT-DAT contains classes like 'viewpoint', 'view', 'data', 'expression method', and 'reference model', and 11 properties including 'hasView.' To prove the effectiveness of ONT-SAF, we perform a case study.
Keywords
Ontology; Architecture framework; Simulation-based Acquisition;
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