Multi-INT Ontology Mediation Services

In recent decades, the challenge of modern warfare has shifted from gathering as much information as possible to filtering and synthesizing the large quantity collected for human interpretation and action. Before a comprehensive view of any situation can be presented, all relevant data must be interpretable and accessible in a uniform manner. Tools exist enabling integration of enterprise systems; however, this activity is nearly always time-consuming and manpower-intensive. We propose an ontology mediation service that provides a lighter weight, lower cost, and more flexible alternative to full-scale system integration. The service will serve as a functional platform for more advanced research and convert between present-day data models using predictive analysis and automation. The solution will also be aggressively positioned for the future of data representation by using conceptual and semantic algorithms to construct a rich, machine-readable ontological representation of a given domain. We believe the need is best satisfied by a system that: 1) contains its own comprehensive foundation ontology, 2) can ingest example ontologies, 3) expands its internal ontology and improves its automated mapping ability, 4) translates and outputs to any format that can be read in, and 6) uses web services and integrates seamlessly with a Service-Oriented Architecture.