Joint Synthetic Battlespace Integration Framework (JSB IF)
September 2003
S. David Kwak, PhD, The MITRE Corporation
Lt. Col. Emily Andrew, ESC/CXE
ABSTRACT
The Joint Synthetic Battlespace or JSB will support training, acquisition, test and evaluation, and
research and development communities. To accomplish this, the JSB must operate at many levels of detail,
including: engineering level; entity level; mission level; operational level; and strategic level. The JSB’s broad
scope makes it impractical to build all new simulation components. Instead, the JSB will rely on existing
components as much as possible. Integrating legacy simulations is, therefore, one of the most critical issues for the
JSB.
The JSB Integration Framework (IF) is being designed to address this critical issue. It is hoped that JSB IF
concepts will eventually reduce the effort required for large-scale simulation integration by an order of magnitude.
If successful, the JSB IF would permit construction of complex test beds or experiments in one or two months rather
than one or two years. This paper describes an approach to developing JSB’s integration framework, which clearly
separates integration syntax and semantics, with an emphasis on innovative ontological semantic integration.
Additional Search Keywords
Joint Synthetic Battlespace (JSB), Architecture, Integration Framework, Ontology, XML, Semantic Integration,
Syntactic Integration, Plug-and-play, Legacy System Integration
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