Doctrine/Lessons Learned

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Breakout Session Out-Brief

Facilitator

: Alice Mulvehill (BBN)

Outline

– Working Group Name: Doctrine/LL – Purpose – Significant Issues – Recommendations/Plan of Action

Some Common Goals

• Use DAML to support

user groups

: – Operations: Decision support – Training – Doctrine: Both producers and consumers • User Processes: – Information (doctrine/lessons) access – Auto-generation of valid/reliable structured information – Just-in-time information delivery (post approval/verification)  Across all levels (strategic, operational, tactical)   Tailored granularity (concept, task, mission) Usable format • Constraints: – Portable: Does not require net connection – Tools must be easy to use, inexpensive to acquire

Significant Issues/Needs

Process

:

1. Tools for searching and inferencing with DAML ontologies

• for context-sensitive search for given documents • for document revision and change tracking • for speeding up the markup process 2. Meta-tag generation 3.

Identifying user’s granularity need (e.g., paragraph vs. task) 4. Approval of DAML links in doctrine generation 5. Bandwidth of existing info infrastructure systems, & search implications 6. Performance Tasks: • Representations for situation collection  Verification and editing • Trend analysis (e.g., from lessons, commonalities among METLs) • Comparative evaluations (e.g., search using DAML markup vs. not)

Product

: 1.

Provide portable/local search (e.g., not connected to SIPRNET) 2.

3.

Agent-based tools for exploiting DAMLized LL/doctrine Meta-tag use

Questions

1. Can PDF files (or their indices) be DAMLized (i.e., is HTML needed)?

2. Any existing dataspace visualization tools for viewing DAML links?

• If so, what are their existing capabilities?

Recommendations/Plan of Action

1. Make requested DAML tools available • e.g., Ontology generators, auto-markup tools, DAML editors 2. Create inferencing tools for use with DAML markup 3. Advertise DAML tutorial (i.e., the walk-thru example) 4. Request DAML tool summary at next meeting 1. Build ontologies for METLs (DRC) 2. Demonstrate the utility of DAML for applying doctrine/LL in decision support systems (Several groups) 3. Provide PDF mission folder examples (with indices) for experimentation re: just-in-time index generation (C. McGrath) 4. Test ontology creation & markup tools (M. Dietvorst w/ D. Rager) 5. Provide intro descriptions & system requirements of available DAML tools (A. Mulvehill) 6. Provide feedback/assessments to Alice on DAML tools (all)

Session Attendees

• David W. Aha • Ted Baer • Phillip Boos • Sally DeGozzaldi • Mike Dietvorst • Kalyan Gupta • Marti Hall • Jake Jacobowitz • Bob Lucas • Chuck McGrath • Chuck A. Menges • Alice Mulvehill • Bruce Peoples • Mike Pratt • David Rager • Dennis Toomey • Mark Werner