An Object-Oriented Meta-Model as Ontology for Describing Domains and Problems for Planning Space Applications Planning
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Abstract
One of the major difficulties in developing planners, by using Planning and Schedulingtechniques from Artificial Intelligence (AIPS), is the correct description of domains and
problems. AIPS techniques have been in use to plan satellite activities. The work proposed in
this paper defines an Object-Oriented Meta-Model as an Ontology to describe domains and
problems related to Planning activities. The paper uses ontologies and knowledge
management to provide support to model domain in the area of satellite control. A tool has
been developed to describe such domains and problems with respect to space applications.
The tool provides graphical resources to define concepts and relations besides enabling
constructing frameworks of objects from ontologies as well as their definitions, properties
and constraints.