Emancipating instances from the tyranny of classes in information modeling
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
The Design of a New Policy Model to Support Ontology-Driven Reasoning for Autonomic Networking
Journal of Network and Systems Management
Ontology mapping for the interoperability problem in network management
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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Most service and network management applications are developed to use vendor- and device-specific management data. These data are produced from different languages, and hence can have different representations of the same concept. We define a novel knowledge representation and mapping mechanism that uses ontological concepts and relations to generate a formal description for the Directory Enabled Networks new generation information model. This endows the model with the necessary semantic richness and formalism to represent different types of information for use in network management operations. Data is extracted from models, and is used to represent facts. These facts are semantically related to concepts and relations from one or more ontologies using a lexicon. A new data structure is then built by combining knowledge extracted from model elements with knowledge extracted from ontological elements. Semantic relatedness measures are then used to associate modeled data with ontological data. Early results are also presented