Formal refinement patterns for goal-driven requirements elaboration
SIGSOFT '96 Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Foundations of software engineering
The Vision of Autonomic Computing
Computer
A Goal-based Approach to Policy Refinement
POLICY '04 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks
A Functional Solution for Goal-Ooriented Policy Refinement
POLICY '06 Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks
Initial approach toward self-configuration and self-optimization in IP networks
MMNS'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services
WWW: WSMO, WSML, and WSMX in a nutshell
ASWC'06 Proceedings of the First Asian conference on The Semantic Web
Simplifying network administration using policy-based management
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
This paper presents an approach for facilitating the setting-up and management of new multi-organizational telecom services. We are addressing factors that currently impede the development of new complex telecom services. One factor is the gap between high-level business goals and low-level network management policies making it hard for business managers to quickly implement new business ideas. A second factor, due to the trends towards outsourcing and multi-organizational structures, is the increasing complexity of the services which leads to high demands on the management environments. These factors translate into high costs and long time-to-market for the introduction of new complex telecom services. As a suggestion for a solution to these issues, we propose a goal-based approach towards self-management of complex telecom services. In our suggestion lies a new breed of network devices called Autonomic Entities which should be able both to orchestrate services fulfilling given goals, and to refine and combine goals for the purpose of self-management. This paper focuses on how Autonomic Entities can be combined via a goal combining method for the creation of new services. Our approach is illustrated with examples and an application to a scenario.