Technical Goals:
BBN will continue to enhance and develop tools in support of the DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML) program. In particular, we will monitor the tools being developed by other participants in the DAML program and endeavor to fill any gaps to ensure the broad set of tools needed to support the use of DAML are available. Tools developed by BBN, and that will be maintained and enhanced, include: DAML Validator, DAMLVisio, DAML EMACS Editor, DAML DataBase (DB), DAML Crawler, HyperDAML, DAML Viewer, DumpOnt, and PalmDAML.
BBN will continue to support the development of the DAML Language by Chairing and hosting the Joint US and EU Ontology Language Working Group. We will also provide membership to support the Resource Description Language (RDF) Working Group and the Web Ontology Working Group.
BBN will continue to support the other DAML researches by being an early adopter and tester of their technology components.
BBN will continue to host the DAML Laboratory and make those resources available to other DAML researchers as needed. We will also host the www.daml.org web server and maintain the library of tools and applications available for download and use by anyone interested in using DAML technology.
BBN will continue to support the planning and execution of PI meetings and Semantic Web for Military User meetings.
BBN will continue to interact with potential transition partners via the Semantic Web for Military Users meetings and other interactions.
DAML Experiment:
BBN will design the overall concept for the DAML Experiment and work closely with the other DAML researches to integrate their technologies into an operational prototype that solves real military problems within the domain of the DARPA Information Exploitation Office (IXO). We will coordinate with military users at JFCOM and PACOM to ensure they have ample opportunity to interact with the evolving capabilities of the DAML Experiment and provide feedback on the functionality to the DAML researchers. We will coordinate demonstrations of the DAML Experiment functionality as appropriate.
BBN will also coordinate Technology Integration Experiments (TIEs) with other military transition partners to show how DAML can support their technology and bring elements of their functionality into the core DAML Experiment. Candidate TIEs include: the Joint Battlespace Infosphere, Foreign Clearance Guide, Navy Doctrine and Lessons Learned, Army Lessons Learned, and Navy Expeditionary Sensor Grid.
Metrics:
BBN will identify metrics relevant to the DAML Experiment and set up processes to collect the necessary data to support the measurement of these metrics. We will work closely with the military users of the DAML Experiment functionality to identify functional metrics that are most meaningful to the operational users.
Next Logical Steps:
The DAML Experiment should act as a forcing function to identify strengths and weaknesses in applying the language and tools to a significant real-world problem. The web-based nature of DAML should make it relatively easy to extend the distributed nature of the DAML Experiment in the future and explore metrics related to a highly distributed system-of-systems approach to system development. In particular, it would be interesting to extend and link the initial DAML Experiment, that focuses on the Operational Net Assessment (ONA) process, into more tactically oriented applications supporting effects based planning and time critical targeting.