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Brad,
Good suggestion, to develop a
use case, which you posted as:
> Use Case:
> A officer on the battlefield learns of an
entirely new source for
> weather data. He is tasked to integrate that
data with existing data sources
> to prepare tomorrow's battle
plan.
I suggest this Use Case asks for
too little. Wikipedia defines Semantic Interoperability as "ability of
two or more computer systems to exchange information and have the meaning of
that information accurately and automatically interpreted by the receiving
system." If we had standard syntax today, humans could
interpret the meaning of new data sources. I suggest the Use Case should
require computers to interpret data from new sources without human
help.
Also, the DoD Net Centric calls
for "unanticipated" computer use of data.
Here's a suggested mod to your
Use Case:
"A officer on the battlefield is directed to immediately halt one course of
action and pursue another objective, which had not be anticipated and for which
there is no battle plan. He immediately issues a halt
to current actions and has 15 minutes to issue new preliminary
orders. He spends 5 minutes plugging in new parameters and expects
his computers to access thousands of data sources (many of them unanticipated
sources found through searches) and return 3 scenarios in 5 minutes, giving him
5 minutes to make the decision. Of the hundreds of
agents activated, one will search for weather data from all sources it can
find and understand, and process it against other data being
gathered."
Jim Schoening
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