Knowledge engineering: principles and methods
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special jubilee issue: DKE 25
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Applying the Web ontology language to management information definitions
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Ontologies: giving semantics to network management models
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Autonomic policy-based management using web services
CoNEXT '06 Proceedings of the 2006 ACM CoNEXT conference
A semantic management model to enable the integrated management of media and devices
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Ontology-based knowledge representation for self-governing systems
DSOM'06 Proceedings of the 17th IFIP/IEEE international conference on Distributed Systems: operations and management
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Integrated network management frameworks include a common definition of the managed resources, known as an information model, which is a key factor to describe the domain to be managed. In this scope, it is important to understand the semantics each information model provides to allow interoperation among different integrated management architectures. For this, ontology languages have recently been proposed, because thanks to their formalization they can deal with the semantics of information. Nevertheless, they need to be adapted to meet the management requirements. An alternative to the use of ontology languages can be the formalization of the management information languages to cope with the semantics of the information models. This paper provides a way to formalize one of these management languages: the Common Information Model metaschema. The formalization is based on the use of the Object Constraint Language to define in a formal way the set of natural language rules that describe this metaschema, improving its semantics, comparing also this solution to those based on ontologies.