References

A variety of external references are described and linked on this site's Blog.

Many essential references appear in the accompanying Network Optional Warfare (NOW) pages.  They are collected here.  Further additions are welcome.

• Net-Centric plus Network Optional Yields Mission-Agile EMCON, CC4913 Command and Control (C2) Capstone Class Project report and briefing, April 2015.  Instructors Dan Boger and Don Brutzman.  This work was presented at the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Wargame Planning and Innovation Workshop hosted by the NPS Littoral Operations Center (LOC), 23-24 April 2015.

• Armold, Adrian D., XML Tactical Chat (XTC) Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol for Command and Control Applications, Master’s Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey California USA, September 2006.  Examines potential Navy use of Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) for chat.

• Blais, Curtis L. Rich Semantic Track (RST) Ontology: Unified Semantics and Pragmatics for Track Data Interchange, Ph.D. Dissertation Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey California, 2018.
• Brutzman, Don, Tim Chung, Carol O’Neal, Lyla Englehorn, Jerry Ellis, Future Unmanned Naval Systems (FUNS) Wargame Competition 2011, Technical Report NPS-USW-2011-001, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey California, July 2011.  Available upon request .

• Brutzman, D., McGregor, D., DeVos, D. A., Lee, C. S., Amsden, S., and Blais, C., et al.,  XML-Based Tactical Chat (XTC): Requirements, Capabilities and Preliminary Progress, Technical Report No. NPS-MV-2004-001, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey California, 2004. Examines potential Navy use of Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) for chat.

• Brutzman, Don and Don McGregor, XML Binary Serialization using Cross-Format Schema Protocol (XFSP) and XML Compression Considerations for Extensible 3D (X3D) Graphics, position paper, W3C Workshop on Binary Interchange of XML Information Item Sets, 24-26 September 2003, Santa Clara California.  Resources include Call for Participation and Workshop Report.
• Childers, Candace M, Applying Semantic Web Concepts to Support Net-Centric Warfare using the Tactical Assessment Markup Language (TAML), Masters Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey California, June 2006.
• Candace Childers, Don Brutzman, Curtis Blais, Paul Young, “A Case Study in Applying Semantic Web Technologies to the XML-Based Tactical Assessment Markup Language (TAML),” Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2006 Fall Symposium on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition, Arlington Virginia, 13-15 October 2006.
• Debich, Steve, Bruce Hill, Scot Miller, Don Brutzman, "Being Efficient with Bandwidth," Information Sciences Department, Naval Postgraduate School, 1 May 2014.  Accepted for publication under Professional Notes, U.S. Naval Institute (USNI) Proceedings, vol. 140 no. 7, July 2014.
• Debich, Steven J., The Role of Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) in Navy Wide-Area Network (WAN) Optimization, Masters Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey California, March 2015. Co–advisor Scot Miller. Received Outstanding Thesis Award from NPS Information Sciences Department.
• DeVos, Daniel A., XML Tactical Chat (XTC):  The Way Ahead for Navy Chat, Masters Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey California, September 2007. Examines potential Navy use of Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) for chat.
• Fischer, William D., Enhancing Network Communication in NPSNET-V Virtual Environments using XML-Described Dynamic Behavior Protocols (DBP), Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey California, September 2001.
• Goff, John, "Wanted: An Agile, Low-Cost, Irregular-Warfare Surface Combatant," Operations Research Department, Naval Postgraduate School, 8 September 2014.  Accepted for publication under Professional Notes, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, vol. 140 no. 10, July 2014.
• Graves, Steven M., Internetworking: Airborne Mine Countermeasures C4I Information Systems, Information Technology Management (ITM), Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey California, December 1996.  The first tactical data link using Internet Protocol (IP).
• Greenert, Jonathan, ADM USN, Chief of Naval Operations, "Imminent Domain," U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, December 2012.
• Greenert, Jonathan, ADM USN, Chief of Naval Operations, NAVY CONCEPT GENERATION AND CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, OPNAVINST 5401.9A, 24 June 2014.

• Hill, Bruce W., Evaluation of Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) for Large Datasets and as an Alternative To Binary Json Encodings, Masters Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey California, March 2015. Co–advisor Don McGregor.

• “Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson,” biographical summary, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Nelson,_1st_Viscount_Nelson

• Hughes, Wayne P. Jr., CAPT USN (Ret.) and Robert P. Girrier, RADM USN (Ret.), Fleet Tactics and Coastal Combat, third edition, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis Maryland, 2018.

• Hughes, Wayne P. Jr., CAPT USN (Ret.) and Kline, Jeffrey R. CAPT USN (Ret.), Transitioning the Navy to the Twenty-First Century, Strategic Discussion Group (SDG) briefing, 18 December 2013.

• Hughes, Wayne P. Jr., CAPT USN (Ret.), Single-Purpose Warships for the Littorals, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, vol. 140 no. 6, Annapolis Maryland, June 2014. Also unabridged copy, 21 March 2014.

• Kline, Jeffrey R. and Hughes, Wayne P. Jr., A Flotilla to Support a Strategy of Offshore Control, monograph, Naval Postgraduate School, 4 December 2012.

• Lucas, Andrew, Digital Semaphore: Technical Feasibility of QR Code Optical Signaling for Fleet Communications, Master’s Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2013.  Received NPS Outstanding Thesis Award.

• McGregor, Don, Don Brutzman, Adrian Armold, Curtis L. Blais, Mark Falash and Eytan Pollack, DIS-XML: Moving DIS to Open Data Exchange Standards, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO) Simulation Interoperability Workshop (SIW), 2006.

• Massive Multiplayer Online War Game Leveraging the Internet (MMOWGLI), Electromagnetic Maneuver (em2), February-March 2013.  Sponsored by Navy Warfare Development Command (NWDC), Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) and Office of Naval Research (ONR).  Accessible via https://portal.mmowgli.nps.edu/em2

• O'Rourke, Ronald, Navy Network-Centric Warfare Concept: Key Programs and Issues,  Congressional Research Service, The Library of Congress, updated 31 May 2005

• Phillips, Stephen, CREATING FEEDBACK CHANNELS WITH OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS FOR INFORMATION OPERATIONS (IO), Master’s Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2016.

• QR Codes for Visual Signaling and Tactical Chat, http://qr.nps.edu  including a video demonstration of QR Tactical Chat (with no network connection) by USNA midshipmen Jonathan Driesslen and Daniel Fallon (class of 2014), August 2013.

• Reimers, Stephen P, Towards Internet Protocol over seawater (IP/SW): forward error correction (FEC) using Hamming codes for reliable acoustic telemetry, Masters Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey California, September 1995.

• Richter, Stephen P., Digital Semaphore: Tactical Implications of QR Code Optical Signaling for Fleet Communications, Master’s Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2013. Received NPS Outstanding Thesis Award.

• Robinson, Stephanie, The Rapid Deployment Of Light Fidelity Networking on U.S. Navy Ships, Master’s Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2022.

• Ruble, Robert C. Jr. CAPT USN (Ret.), “Cede No Water: Strategy, Littorals and Flotillas,” Proceedings, vol. 139 no. 9, U.S. Naval Institute, Annapolis Maryland, September 2013.

• Serin, Ekrem, Design and Test of the Cross-Format Schema Protocol (XFSP) for Networked Virtual Environments, Master’s Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey California USA, March 2003.
• Simard, Matthew J., Muted Messaging: Achieving Total Radio Frequency (RF) Emissions Control (EMCON) for Expeditionary Operations in a Contested Battlespace, Master’s Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2013. Received NPS Outstanding Thesis Award.

• Snyder, Sheldon L., LCDR USN,  Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Compression and Performance Benefits: Development, Implementation and Evaluation, Master’s Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey California, March 2010.  Also available: poster.

• Sokol, Christopher R., “A Study on Using Quick Reference Codes in Airport Surface Operations to Reduce Accidents and Incidents While Taxiing,” capstone project, Embry-Riddle University, 18 June 2013.

• Stewart, Kenneth A., “NPS Faculty, Researchers Stand Up New Littoral Operations Center,” news release, Naval Postgraduate School, 10 January 2013.

• Whiteneck, Daniel, Michael Price, Neil Jenkins, Peter Swartz, The Navy at a Tipping Point: Maritime Dominance at Stake?, annotated briefing, CNA Center for Naval Analyses, March 2010.

• Williams, Jeffrey Scott Sr., CDR USN, Document-Based Message-Centric Security using XML Authentication and Encryption for Coalition and Interagency Operations, Master’s Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey California, September 2009.

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