REPORTS/PAPERS

Blais, C., Brown, D., Diallo, S., Heffner, K., Levine, S., Singapogu, S., St-Onge, M., and Scolaro, D., "Coalition Battle Management Language (C-BML) Phase 1 Specification Development: An Update to the M&S Community," Paper 09F-SIW-001, Proceedings of the Fall Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, Orlando, September 2009.

Tolk, A., Blais, C. L., Diallo, S. Y., and Turnitsa, C., "Conceptual Requirements for Command and Control Languages," Paper 09F-SIW-075, Proceedings of the Fall Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, Orlando, September 2009.

Johnson, J., and Blais, C., "Software Hardware Asset Reuse Enterprise (SHARE) Repository Framework," Proceedings of the 6th Annual Acquisition Research Symposium, Monterey, May 2009.

Whittington, E., and Blais, C., "Extending Capabilities of the Military Scenario Definition Language (MSDL) for Nontraditional Warfare Scenarios," Paper 09S-SIW-001, Proceedings of the Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, San Diego, March 2009.

Blais, C., Abbott, J., Diallo, S., Levine, S., Gustavsson, P. M., Nero, E., and Turnitsa, C., "Coalition Battle Management Language (C-BML) Phase 1 Specification Development: An Update to the M&S Community," Paper 09S-SIW-002, Proceedings of the Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, San Diego, March 2009.

Blais, C., Dodds, R., Pearman, J., and Baez, F., "Rapid Scenario Generation for Multiple Simulations: An Application of the Military Scenario Definition Language (MSDL)," Paper 09S-SIW-003, Proceedings of the Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, San Diego, March 2009.

Gustavson, P., Nikolai, A., Scrudder, R., Blais, C., and Daehler-Wilking, R., "Discovery and Reuse of Modeling and Simulation Assets," Paper 09S-SIW-076, Proceedings of the Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, San Diego, March 2009.

Leong, H. W., Brutzman, D., McGregor, D., and Blais, C., "Web Services Integration On the Fly," Proceedings of the Spring Simulation Multi-Conference, San Diego, March 2009.

Blais, C., Toward a Verification, Validation, and Accreditation (VV&A) Ontology, Technical Report, Naval Postgraduate School, 31 December 2008.

Blais, C., Standardized Verification, Validation, and Accreditation (VV&A) Documentation Schema Description Document, Technical Report NPS-MV-08-001, Naval Postgraduate School, 31 October 2008.

Johnson, J., and Blais, C., Software Hardware Asset Reuse Enterprise (SHARE) Repository Framework Final Report: Component Specification and Ontology, Technical Report NPS-AM-08-134, Naval Postgraduate School, 30 September 2008.

Abbott, J., Blais, C., Diallo, S., Levine, S., Gustavsson, P. M., Nero, E., Mevassvik, O. M., and Turnitsa, C., "Coalition Battle Managemetn Language (C-BML) Phase 1 Specification Development Progress: An Update to the M&S Community," Paper 08F-SIW-005, Fall Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, Orlando, FL, September 2008.

Charlow, K., Daehler-Wilking, R., Blais, C., and Stutzman, M., "Standardized Documentation for Verification, Validation, and Accreditation," Paper 08F-SIW-003, Fall Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, Orlando, FL, September 2008.

Hayes-Roth, R., Blais, C., Pullen, J. M., and Brutzman, D., "How to Implement National Information Sharing Strategy: Detailed Elements of the Evolutionary Management Approach Required," Proceedings of the GMU/AFCEA Command and Control Symposium, Fairfax, VA, May 2008.

Johnson, J., and Blais, C., SHARE Repository Framework: Component Specification and Ontology, Proceedings of the Acquisition Research Symposium, Monterey, CA, May 2008.

Blais, C., "Military Scenario Description Language (MSDL): How Broadly Can It Be Applied?" Paper 08S-SIW-002, Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, Providence, RI, April 2008.

Blais, C., "DoD VVandA Documentation Tool," Paper 08S-SIW-003, Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, Providence, RI, April 2008.

Blais, C., "Development of the Coalition Battle Management Language (C-BML) Phase 1 Specification," Paper 08S-SIW-004, Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, Providence, RI, April 2008.

Blais, C., "Mobility Common Operational Picture," Paper 08S-SIW-005, Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, Providence, RI, April 2008.

Johnson, J., and Blais, C., Software Hardware Asset Reuse Enterprise (SHARE) Repository Framework: Related Work and Development Plan, Technical Report NPS-AM-08-021, Naval Postgraduate School, 27 March 2008.

Hayes-Roth, R. and Blais, C., "A Rich Semantic Model of Track as a Foundation for Sharing Beliefs Regarding Dynamic Objects and Events," Intelligent Decision Technologies, January 2008.

Buss, A. and Blais, C., "Composability and Component-Based Discrete Event Simulation," Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference, December 2007.

Hayes-Roth, R., and Blais, C., "A Pragmatic Foundation for Defining a Rich Semantic Model of Track," Proceedings of the Second International Ontology for the Intelligence Community Conference OIC-2007, Kathleen Stewart Hornsby (ed.), Columbia, MD, 28-29 November 2007. Available at: OIC-2007 Proceedings

Charlow, K., Broyles, D. H., Blais, C., and Stutzman, M., "Acquisition Community Sponsored M&S Project: Standardized Documentation for Verification, Validation, and Accreditation - A Status Report to the Systems Engineering Community," Proceedings of the 10th Annual Systems Engineering Conference, National Defense Industrial Association, San Diego, California, October 2007.

Abbott, J., Gagnon, F., Blais, C., Gupton, K., Chase, T., Peplow, K., Covelli, J., Prochnow, D., Fraka, M., and Wittman, R., "MSDL the Road to Balloting," Paper 07F-SIW-017, Fall Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, Orlando, Florida, September 2007.

Levine, S., Pullen, J. M., Hieb, M. R., Blais, C., Pandolfo, C., Roberts, J., and Kearley, J., "Joint Battle Management Language (JBML) - Phase 1 Development and Demonstration Results," Paper 07F-SIW-051, Fall Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, Orlando, Florida, September 2007.

Broyles, D. H., Blais, C., and Stutzman, M., "Automating Standardized Information for the Verification, Validation, and Accreditation Process: An Acquisition Community Sponsored M&S Project," Paper 07F-SIW-068, Fall Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, Orlando, Florida, September 2007.

Pullen, J. M., Hieg, M. R., Levine, S., Tolk, A., and Blais, C., "Joint Battle Management Language (JBML) - US Contribution to the C-BML PDG and NATO MSG-048 TA," Proceedings of the European Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Paper 07E-SIW-020, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, Genoa, Italy, June 2007.

Burk, R., Goerger, N., Gates, B., Blais, C., Nagle, J., and Goerger, S., "Knowledge Representation for Military Mobility Decision-Making by Humans and Intelligent Software: The Mobility Common Operational Picture Data Model and Ontology," Extending the Horizons: Advances in Computing, Optimization, and Decision Technologies, Vol 37, Chap 15, Springer, New York, 2007. here

Weekley, Jeffrey D., Blais, Curtis L., and Brutzman, Don, "Composing Behaviors and Swapping Bodies with Motion Capture Data in X3D," Proceedings of the Web3D 2007 Symposium, Umbria, Italy, April 2007.

Pullen, J. M., Hieg, M. R., Levine, S., Tolk, A., and Blais, C., "Joint Battle Management Language (JBML) - US Contribution to the C-BML PDG," Paper 07S-SIW-022, Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, Norfolk, Virginia, March 2007.

Turnitsa, C., Blais, C., and Tolk, A., "Filling the Ontology Space for Coalition Battle Management Language," Paper 07S-SIW-028, Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, Norfolk, Virginia, March 2007.

Blais, C., Gustavson, P., Gustavsson, P. M., and Reichenthal, S., "Design and Development of an Architecture for Demonstrating the Interplay of Emerging SISO Standards," Paper 07S-SIW-039, Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, Norfolk, Virginia, March 2007.

Blais, C. and Jensen, J., "A Maritime Component for the Joint Battle Management Language," Paper 07S-SIW-040, Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, Norfolk, Virginia, March 2007.

Brutzman, D., Sadagic, A., Blais, C., and Norbraten, T., "Extensible 3D (X3D) Graphics Interoperability and X3D Earth Archivable Composed Collaborative Web-Based 3D Visualization with Global Geospatial Context for Complex Analysis and Evaluation of Intelligence Products," MOVES Institute, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA, 7 March 2007.

Brutzman, D., Blais, C. and Norbraten, T., (eds) "Modeling and 3D Visualization for Evaluation of Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection Alternatives Phase II Final Report," NPS-MV-06-002, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, 21 November 2006.

Childers, C., Brutzman, D., Blais, C. and Young, P., "A Case Study in Applying Semantic Web Technologies to the XML-Based Tactical Assessment Markup Language (TAML)," Proceedings of the Fall Symposium on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Arlington VA, October 2006.

Blais, C., Turnitsa, C. and Gustavsson, P., "A Strategy for Ontology Research for the Coalition Battle Management Language (C-BML) Product Development Group," Paper 06F-SIW-003, Fall Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, Orlando FL, September 2006.

Davis, D., Blais, C., and Brutzman, D., "Autonomous Vehicle Control Language for Simulated and Real Robotic Forces," Paper 06F-SIW-004, Fall Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, Orlando FL, September 2006.

Nagle, J. A., Blais, C., Burk, R., Gates, B. Q., Goerger, N. C., and Richmond, P. W., "The Mobility Common Operational Picture Data Model: A Foundation for Conceptual Interoperability in the Domain of Ground Vehicle Mobility and Maneuver," Paper 06F-SIW-005, Fall Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, Orlando FL, September 2006.

Blais, C., Gustavsson, P., Gustafson, P., and Reichenthal, S., "An Architecture for Demonstrating the Interplay of Emerging SISO Standards," Paper 06F-SIW-069, Fall Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, Orlando FL, September 2006.

Richmond, P., Blais, C. L., and Goerger, N. C., "Development of a Ground Vehicle Maneuver Ontology to Support the DoD GIG and Common Operational Picture," CrossTalk Special Issue on Netcentricity, Journal of Defense Software Engineering, July 2006.

Richmond, P., Blais, C. L., Nagle, J. A., Goerger, N. C., Gates, B. Q., Willis, J., and Keeter, R., "Standards for the Mobility Common Operational Picture (M-COP): Elements of Ground Vehicle Maneuver, Final Report," ERDC Letter Report, Project No SIMCI-2005-007, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, July 2006.

Burk, R., Goerger, N., Gates, B., Blais, C. L., Nagle, J. A., and Goerger, S., "Knowledge Representation for Military Mobility Decision-Making by Humans and Intelligent Software Agents," submitted June 2006 to INFORMS Computing Society for publishing.

Brutzman, D., Blais, C. L., and Norbraten, T., "Naval Installation Security Modeling and Simulation Workshop Summary Report," Technical Report NPS-MV-06-001, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA, 12 May 2006.

Goerger, N. C., Blais, C. L., Gates, B., Nagle, J. A., and Keeter, R., "Toward Establishing the Mobility Common Operational Picture: Needs Analysis and Ontology Development in Support of Interoperability," Paper 06S-SIW-044, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, 2006 Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Huntsville, AL, April 2006.

McGregor, D., Brutzman, D., Armold, A., and Blais, C. L., "DIS-XML: Moving DIS to Open Data Exchange Standards," Paper 06S-SIW-132, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, 2006 Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Huntsville, AL, April 2006.

Richmond, P., Blais, C. L., Nagle, J. A., Goerger, N. C., Gates, B. Q., and Willis, J., "Web Services Identified for the Mobility-COP," ERDC Letter Report, Project No. SIMCI-2005-007, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, 1 February 2006.

Blais, C. L., Goerger, N. C., Nagle, J. A., and Gates, B. "Stakeholders Analysis and Design of a Common Data Model for the Mobility COP," Second Interim Report, Project No. SIMCI-2005-007, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, 31 December 2005.

Blais, C., "Modeling and Simulation for Military Operations Other Than War (MOOTW)," MV4920 Course Summary, Naval Postgraduate School MOVES Institute, Monterey, CA, 15 December 2005.

Blais, C., "Final Report: Military Operations Other Than War (MOOTW) Flexible Asymmetric Simulation Technologies (FAST) Toolbox Research and Development," Naval Postgraduate School MOVES Institute, Monterey, CA, 15 December 2005.

Cipparone, J., Randolph, W., Blais, C., and Hartley III, D. S., "MOOTW FAST Toolbox: Supporting the Warfighter in Winning the Peace," Proceedings of the 2005 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), Orlando, FL, December 2005.

Galvin, K., Hieb, M. R., Tolk, A., Turnitsa, C. D., and Blais, C., "Coalition Battle Management Language Study Group Final Report," Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, 30 September 2005 [summarized in Paper 05F-SIW-041, Proceedings of the Fall 2005 Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Orlando, FL, September 2005.]

Blais, C., Galvin, K., and Hieb, M., "Coalition Battle Management Language (C-BML) Study Group Report," Paper 05F-SIW-041, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, 2005 Fall Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Orlando, FL, September 2005.

Blais, C. L., Goerger, N. C., Richmond, P., Gates, B., and Willis, J. B., "Global Information Grid Services and Generation of the Mobility Common Operational Picture," Paper 05F-SIW-107, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, 2005 Fall Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Orlando, FL, September 2005.

Cipparone, J., Randolph, W., Blais, C., Ellis, J., and Hartley III, D. S., "On a Methodology for Conducting Integrated Analysis for Operational Assessments Using the MOOTW FAST Toolbox," Naval Postgraduate School MOVES Institute, 31 August 2005.

Richmond, P., Willis, J. B., Blais, C. L., Goerger, N. C., and Nagle, J. A., "Synthesis of Data Representations for Ground Vehicle Mobility and Suggested Representation of the Mobility COP," First Interim Report, Project No. SIMCI-2005-007, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, 31 July 2005.

Blais, C., Goerger, N. C., Richmond, P., Gates, B., and Pace, M., "Data Mapping and Ontology Design for Common Maneuver Networks," Paper 05S-SIW-140, Proceedings of the Spring 2005 Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, San Diego, CA, April 2005.

Tolk, A., and Blais, C., "Taxonomies, Ontologies, and Battle Management Langauges -- Recommendations for the Coalition BML Study Group," Paper 05S-SIW-007, Proceedings of the Spring 2005 Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, San Diego, CA, April 2005.

Blais, C., and Cipparone, J., MOOTW FAST Prototype Toolbox Training Plan, E-9348U, Dynamics Research Corporation, Vienna, VA, 15 February 2005.

Blais, C., Brutzman, D., Drake, D., Moen, D., Morse, K., Pullen, M., and Tolk, A., Extensible Modeling and Simulation Framework (XMSF) 2004 Project Summary Report, NPS-MV-05-002, Naval Postgraduate School MOVES Institute, Monterey, CA, 4 February 2005. (document)

Blais, C., Holdsworth, D., and Senko, B., MOOTW FAST Prototype Toolbox: Iraq Vignette Scenario Description, E-9320U, Dynamics Research Corporation, Vienna, VA, 28 January 2005.

Brutzman, D., Blais, C., and Harney, J., "X3D Fundamentals," Visualizing Information Using SVG and X3D, Geroimenko, V. and Chen, C. (Eds.), Chapter 3, Springer, 2005.

Brutzman, D., Hudson, A., Blais, C., and Harney, J., "X3D Graphics, Java, and the Semantic Web," Visualizing Information Using SVG and X3D, Geroimenko, V. and Chen, C. (Eds.), Chapter 5, Springer, 2005.

Pournelle, P. E., Blais, C., and Brutzman, D., "A Transformational Framework for Design, Development, and Integration of Simulation Models," Paper 04F-SIW-019, Proceedings of the Fall 2004 Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, Orlando, FL, September 2004.

Blais, C., and Lacy, L., "Semantic Web: Implications for Modeling and Simulation System Interoperability," Paper 04F-SIW-030, Proceedings of the Fall 2004 Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, Orlando, FL, September 2004.

Blais, C., "Profiling Analytical Combat Models Using Extensible Modeling and Simulation Framework (XMSF) Principles," Simulation Technology Magazine, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO), Vol. 7 Issue 2, 9 September 2004. (article)

Blais, C., Military Operations Other Than War (MOOTW) Flexible Asymmetric Simulation Technologies (FAST) Prototype Toolbox: Development and Demonstration of an Agent-Based Simulation Initialized from FAST XML DIF Data, Naval Postgraduate School MOVES Institute, Monterey, CA, 30 June 2004.

Blais, C., Cipparone, J., Randolph, W., and Hartley, D., "Military Operations Other Than War: A Toolbox for Warriors," 72nd Military Operations Society Symposium, Monterey, CA, June 2004. (Barchi Prize Best Paper Nomination)

Blais, C., Military Operations Other Than War (MOOTW) Flexible Asymmetric Simulation Technologies (FAST) Prototype Toolbox: NPS FY03 Final Report, Naval Postgraduate School MOVES Institute, Monterey, CA, 31 May 2004.

Blais, C., "Extensible Modeling and Simulation Framework (XMSF) Exemplars in Analytic Combat Modeling," Paper 04S-SIW-142, Proceedings of the Spring 2004 Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, Arlington, VA, April 2004.

Blais, C.L., Brutzman, D., Harney, J.W., & Weekley, J., "Web-based 3D Reconstruction of Scenarios for Limited Objective Experiments," Proceedings of the 2002 Summer Computer Simulation Conference, San Diego CA, 17-19 July 2002.

Blais, C.L., Brutzman, D., Harney, J.W. & Hiles, J., "Analyzing Anti-Terrorist Tactical Effectiveness for Force Protection using X3D Graphics and Agent Based Simulation," 70th MORS Symposium, Military Operations Research Society Conference, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, June 16-18, 2002.

Blais, C., Brutzman, D., Harney, J. & Weekley, J., "Emerging Web-based 3D Graphics for Education and Experimentation," Proceedings, 2002 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference Orlando, FL, December 2-5, 2002. (Best Paper Nomination)

Blais, C., Brutzman, D., Horner, D., and Nicklaus, S., "Web-Based 3D Technology for Scenario Authoring and Visualization," Proceedings of the 2001 Interservice / Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference, Orlando, FL, 26-29 November 2001.

Blais, C. L., and Garrabrants, W. M., "Stimulating C4I: Simulation's Role in Distance Learning," Proceedings of the Advanced Simulation Technologies Conference 2000, ed. M. Chinni, Society for Computer Simulation, San Diego, California, 2000.

Blais, C. L., and Garrabrants, W. M., "Simulation in Support of Mission Planning," in Proceedings of the 1999 Advanced Simulation Technology Conference, ed. Chinni, M., Society for Computer Simulation, San Diego, 1999.

Blais, C. L., and Serino, S. L., "Adaptation of a Wargaming System for Web-Based Operation," Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Web-Based Modeling and Simulation Conference, ed. Bruzzone, A.G., Uhrmacher, A., and Page, E.H., Society for Computer Simulation, San Diego, 1999.

Blais, C. L., "Prototyping Advanced Warfare Gaming Capabilities for the 21st Century Warfighter," Proceedings of the 1998 Winter Simulation Conference, ed. D.J. Medeiros, E. F. Watson, M. Manivannan, and J. Carson. Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Piscataway, New Jersey, 1998.

Blais, C. L., "MAGTF Tactical Warfare Simulation (MTWS) Interoperability Issues," 1996 Electronic Simulation Conference on Interoperability in Training Simulations, ed. Smith, R., (no longer available on line).

Blais, C. L., "Scalability Issues in Enhancement of the MAGTF Tactical Warfare Simulation System," Proceedings of the 1995 Winter Simulation Conference, ed. C. Alexopoulous, ed. K. Kang, W.R. Lilegdon, and D. Goldsman. Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Piscataway, New Jersey, 1995.

Blais, C. L., Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Tactical Warfare Simulation, Proceedings of the 1994 Winter Simulation Conference, ed. J.D. Tew, S. Manivannon, D.A. Sadowski, and A.F. Seila. Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Piscataway, New Jersey, 1995.

Numerous project technical reports, documents, and software specifications delivered to SPAWAR Systems Center, San Diego from 1980-1999.