Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited / The Department of Defense (DoD) is both challenged by the quest for interoperability and capable of the bottom-up development of a solution. The predominant method for achieving interoperability is the development of an intermediate representation that provides a common integration language or data model. An example is Young's Object-Oriented Method for Interoperability (OOMI), which produces a Federation Interoperability Object Model (FIOM) for the resolution of heterogeneities in representation and view of a real-world entity. An FIOM generates a standard for interoperability by associating the non-standard, component system data models into an extensible lattice, which captures translations that resolve data modeling differences. To support the bottom-up creation of an FIOM we; (1) describe a self-similar approach to data storage that allows generic data structures to be manageable, extensible and asynchronously populated, and (2) introduce a lattice concept for facilitating efficient and scalable object inheritance relationships. We assert that DoD's acquisition environment necessitates a distributed approach to solving the interoperability challenge. We present the description of a distributed software system to facilitate the collaborative construction of an FIOM within the existing DoD structure and provide an architecture to guide the development of such a distributed collaborative environment. / Lieutenant, United States Navy
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nps.edu/oai:calhoun.nps.edu:10945/1094 |
| Date | 03 1900 |
| Creators | Lawler, George M. |
| Contributors | Berzins, Valdis, Young, Paul, Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.), Computer Science |
| Publisher | Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School |
| Source Sets | Naval Postgraduate School |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | xviii, 137 p. : ill. (some col.) ;, application/pdf |
| Rights | This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. As such, it is in the public domain, and under the provisions of Title 17, United States Code, Section 105, may not be copyrighted. |
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