Ontology-driven intelligent decision support of OOTW operations: health service logistics support

An efficient knowledge sharing between multiple participating parties is required to provide for situation awareness and consequently to manage any coalition-based operation other than war (OOTW) in the network-centric environment. Thereby, it is necessary that the right knowledge from distributed sources is integrated and transferred to the right person within the right context at the right time to the right purpose. The aggregate of these interrelated activities is referred to as knowledge logistics (KL). Within the approach KL is coupled with information fusion based on constraint satisfaction technology (ILOG Solver, Configurator and Dispatcher). The exhibition demonstration presents the multi-agent system "KSNet" that implements KL for an ontology-driven intelligent decision support of health service logistics via a case study of on-the-fly portable hospital configuration within the Binni scenario (developed for the DARPA CoABS program).