Managing ISR sharing policies at the network edge using Controlled English

Christos Parizas; Diego Pizzocaro; Alun Preece; Petros Zerfos

doi:10.1117/12.2015713

22 May 2013 Managing ISR sharing policies at the network edge using Controlled English

Christos Parizas, Diego Pizzocaro , Alun Preece, Petros Zerfos

Proceedings Volume 8742, Ground/Air Multisensor Interoperability, Integration, and Networking for Persistent ISR IV; 87420Z (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2015713
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2013, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Abstract

In domains such as emergency response and military operations the sharing of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) assets among different coalition partners is regulated through policies. Traditionally, poli cies are created at the center of a coalitions network by high-level decision makers and expressed in low-level policy languages (e.g. Common Information Model SPL) by technical personnel, which makes them difficult to be understood by non-technical users at the edge of the network. Moreover, policies must often be modified by negotiation among coalition partners, typically in rapid response to the changing operational situation. Com monly, the users who must cope first with situational changes are those on the edge, so it would be very effective if they were able to create and negotiate policies themselves. We investigate the use of Controlled English (CE) as a means to define a policy representation that is both human-friendly and machine processable. We show how a CE model can capture a variety of policy types, including those based on a traditional asset ownership model, and those defining team-based asset sharing across a coalition. The use of CE is intended to benefit coalition networks by bridging the gap between technical and non-technical users in terms of policy creation and negoti ation, while at the same time being directly processable by a policy-checking system without transformation to any other technical representation.

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Christos Parizas, Diego Pizzocaro , Alun Preece, and Petros Zerfos "Managing ISR sharing policies at the network edge using Controlled English", Proc. SPIE 8742, Ground/Air Multisensor Interoperability, Integration, and Networking for Persistent ISR IV, 87420Z (22 May 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2015713

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