Net-Centric Web Approaches to Intelligence and National Security

Roy Ladner, Frederick E. Petry9780387242958, 0387242953, 0387261761

Net-Centric Approaches to Intelligence and National Security considers the web architectures and recent developments that make net-centric approaches for intelligence and national security possible. The development of net-centric approaches for intelligence, national and homeland security applications has become a major concern in many areas such as defense intelligence and national and international law enforcement agencies, especially since the terrorist attacks of 9/11

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Table of contents :
Table of Contents……Page 6
Preface……Page 7
1. Ontologies for the Semantic Web……Page 9
2. Web Services Overview for Net-Centric Operations……Page 20
3. Metadata Concepts to Support a Net-Centric Data Environment……Page 35
4. Distributed Geospatial Intelligence Integration and Interoperability through the GIDB® Portal System……Page 61
5. Analyzing Intelligence Data……Page 88
6. Linking Military Systems with Simulations and Intelligent Agents through Web Services……Page 107
7. A Multi-Agent Architecture for Distributed Domain-Specific Information Integration……Page 133
8. Natural Environment Data Services in Distributed Modeling and Simulation……Page 153
G……Page 179
N……Page 180
V……Page 181
X……Page 182