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Toward a Formal Common Information Model Ontology

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Web Information Systems – WISE 2004 Workshops (WISE 2004)

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Self-managing systems will be highly dependent upon information acquired from disparate applications, devices, components and subsystems. To be effectively managed, such information will need to conform to a common model. One standard that provides a common model for describing disparate computer and network information is the Common Information Model (CIM). Although CIM defines the models necessary for inferring properties about distributed systems, its specification as a semi-formal ontology limits its ability to support important requirements of a self-managing distributed system including knowledge interoperability and aggregation, as well as reasoning. To support these requirements, there is a need to model, represent and share CIM as a formal ontology. In this paper, we propose a framework for constructing a CIM ontology based upon previous research that identified mappings from Unified Modeling Language (UML) constructs to ontology language constructs. We extend and apply these mappings to a UML representation of the CIM Schema in order to derive a semantically valid and consistent formal CIM ontology.

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  1. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899, USA

    Stephen Quirolgico

  2. Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, 4200-072, Porto, Portugal

    Pedro Assis

  3. Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA, 95134, USA

    Andrea Westerinen

  4. IBM, Poughkeepsie, NY, 12601, USA

    Michael Baskey

  5. IBM, Austin, TX, 78758, USA

    Ellen Stokes

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  1. Cisco Systems, Inc., 95134, San Jose, CA, USA

    Christoph Bussler

  2. Division of Business & Economics, Dankook University, Seoul, Korea

    Suk-ki Hong

  3. Dept. of Computer Education, Seoul National University of Education, Seoul, Korea

    Woochun Jun

  4. School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Massey University, New Zealand

    Roland Kaschek

  5. Department of Information Systems, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

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  6. Caulfield School of Information Technology, Monash University, VIC 3145, Caulfield East, Australia

    Shonali Krishnaswamy

  7. Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, La Trobe University, Australia

    Seng Wai Loke

  8. Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

    Daniel Oberle

  9. Computing Department, Division of Information and Communication Sciences, Macquarie University, 2109, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Debbie Richards

  10. Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 61801, Urbana, IL, USA

    Amit Sharma

  11. SAP AG,  

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  12. Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Olshausenstr. 40, 24098, Kiel, Germany

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Quirolgico, S., Assis, P., Westerinen, A., Baskey, M., Stokes, E. (2004). Toward a Formal Common Information Model Ontology. In: Bussler, C., et al. Web Information Systems – WISE 2004 Workshops. WISE 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3307. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30481-4_2

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