Using ontologies to manage services in ubiquitous environments
Edson Moreira
The success on managing large networks and the services
running on them is closely
related to the quality of the operational control of the net and the
feedback from the customers. As these networks get complex and the
services ubiquitous, there is a need for more flexible, dynamic and
abstract ways to measure the quality of the services provided to
customers. In this talk we introduce the idea of using ontologies to
structure the management information in such a way that it would provide
some key factors we understand will be of importance for managing
services in the future: sharing and collaboration between providers (and
users); high level common specifications; on-the-fly mapping of
policies; context awareness; etc. We will spend some time demonstrating
the potential use of ontologies on a similar problem: security
management. The creation of two ontologies, Security Incident and
Vulnerabilities, with the definition of classes, relationships and the
possibilities of data correlations, will be described.
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