Michael Gerz

Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics FKIE | FKIE · Information Technology for Command and Control

The Multilateral Interoperability Programme (MIP), comprising 26 nations and NATO, has developed the MIP Information Model (MIM) to support semantic interoperability across C2 systems. The MIM is a platform-independent model in UML that focuses on describing semantic concepts rather than mandating a specific technical implementation. In this paper,...

The development of interoperability standards can facilitate communication among information systems by defining a common way to exchange information. These standards are in fact comprised of normative and informative products that typically specify the details and examples that enable heterogeneous systems produced by different organizations to be...

The increasing need to exchange information in joint operations has resulted in interoper- ability standards of signi cant complexity. For instance, the Joint Consultation, Command and Control Information Exchange Data Model (JC3IEDM) that is part of the MIP inter- operability solution has almost doubled in size since 2002. The con guration managem...

Architecture frameworks have become a popular means of coping with the complexity of today's enterprises. They support the specification of architectures by providing a method for designing and describing them. An architecture framework typically defines a common terminology, a set of views focusing on particular aspects of the architecture, a set...

The Joint Consultation, Command, and Control Information Exchange Data Model (JC3IEDM) is the most acknowledged data model in military command and control (C2). So far, the model has been designed to support database replication. In 2007, the Multilateral Interoperability Programme (MIP) has started to transform the JC3IEDM into a platform-independ...

Grundlage für die semantische Interoperabilität heterogener Führungsinformationssysteme ist ein gemeinsames und verbindliches Informationsaustausch-Referenzmodell, das sowohl für den Sender als auch für den Empfänger einer Nachricht die Bedeutung des Inhalts eindeutig definiert. Zur Beschreibung eines Referenzmodells können je nach Anforderungen ve...

Semantic interoperability among command and control information systems is critical to information sharing and proper automated processing. To improve multinational combined and joint mission capabilities, the Multilateral Interoperability Programme (MIP) has defined the Joint Command, Control, and Consultation Information Exchange Data Model (JC3I...

In the Multilateral Interoperability Programme (MIP), 25 nations and NATO develop consensus-based, sys-tem-independent specifications to achieve semantic interoper-ability among distributed and heterogeneous command and control information systems (C2ISs). Implementing a dis-tributed system is a complex and error-prone task. Therefore, extensive an...