Ontology Negotiation in an Intelligent Agents Dynamic System for Military Resources and Capabilities Planning

The division Concepts of the Assistant Chief of Sta ff Evaluation (ACOS Eval) of the Belgian Ministry of Defence is making a study on the subjec t of "management by costs" based on an approach of capabilities. The original idea was based on the generation of fu ture capabilities (investments and planning) and later extended to the operational use of the ex isting capabilities. In this paper an intelligent agents framework is pr oposed to simulate the possible scenarios of capabilities. Central to this subject is the ontolo gy issue, where the Ontology Negotiation Protocol, as explained by Bailin and Truszkowski (B ailin 2001), is one of the solutions that should be further developed to resolve the problems related to the ontologies.