Applying Semantic Web Services to Automate Network Management

Abstract

Since network management research and standardization started in late 1980s, several approaches have been applied, from protocol-based ones, to Web-based ones, then to XML-based ones and later Web services-based ones. These days, Semantic Web services, in particular, have been emerging as a promising technology that may be used in network management for automation. This paper first studies the current evolution of network management, from Web services-based ones to Semantic Web services-based ones, which is under review recently. Then the OWL-S ontology, a semantic markup for Web services, is introduced for the purpose of Semantic Web services-based automated network management. Finally by means of OWL+SWRL and OWL-S, an integrated approach is presented in this paper as a preliminary design for the implementation of Semantic Web services-based automated network management.

On Network Management Solutions and the Potential of P2P Technologies

“…Our prior paper [13] has also discussed Semantic Web services-based network management with respect to the OWL-S ontology, a semantic markup for Web services, and indicates that network management has developed in a way that generic technologies are widely used, while the standardization and integration task plays a significant role in the evolution of automatic network management.…”

Semantic Management Information Modeling based on Theory of Concept Lattices

“…A step forward in integrating ontology-based information is to add behavior information, to the OWL ontology using SWRL [18] [19]. Moreover, OWL-S is an ontology developed in Semantic Web domain, aiming at the automatic discovery, invocation, composition and interoperation of Web services, and it can be utilized to promote the automation of network management [20].…”

Role of Semantic Web in the Changing Context of Enterprise Collaboration

“…This technology supports information sharing and communication by providing platform independence to publish and access data. However, the current web technology arranges the information syntactically, assuming it to be semantically homogenous which commonly causes problems and misunderstandings (Xu, Xiao 2007). Enterprises often use different terminologies to describe the same meaning or alternatively the same terminology may be associated with different meanings.…”

“…Information sharing and communication among multidisciplinary enterprises require the treatment of structure as well as semantics of the data stored in enterprise data and records repositories (Casey, Pahl 2003, Xu, Xiao 2007, Lastra 2006). Collaborating partners often use different terminologies to describe the same meaning or alternatively the same terminology may be associated with different meanings.…”