Volume 4 - Issue 4
Integrated Data Model Development Framework for the Architecture Descriptions
- Mye Sohn
Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea
myesohn@skku.edu
- Saerom Kang
Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea
sr6435@skku.edu
- Hyun Jung Lee
Yonsei Institute of Convergence, Technology, Incheon, South Korea
hjlee5249@gmail.com
Keywords: DoDAF 2.0, Architecture Framework, Data model, Ontology, Defense
Abstract
One of the main pillars of the Department of Defense Architecture Framework Ver. 2.0 (DoDAF
2.0) is Meta-Model, named DM2. It defines data structure that facilitates understanding of the use
of data within an architecture document and ensures sharing and reusing of architectural data across
the architectures. It is still difficult to develop the data model for the architectures even though the
DoDAF 2.0 is preparing supplementary tools for supporting the data model development. To reduce
the difficulties, we propose an I2D2 framework (Integrated and Intelligent Data model Development
framework) with an I2D2 Ontology. The primary goal of the I2D2 framework is identification of
explicit and implicit associations which exist between/among the DM2 terms required to describe a
set of the viewpoints for the architectures. To achieve the goal, we develop the I2D2 Ontology that
is overarching and comprehensive tool enabling the development of the integrated data model for
the architecture descriptions. In the experimental section, we implement our prototype system and
demonstrate the performance of our framework via case studies.