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Managing an IT environment requires the exchange of structured data between different agents. The Common Information Model (CIM) is a comprehensive open standard that specifies how managed elements in an IT environment are modelled as a set of common objects and relationships between them. It has however limited support for knowledge interoperability and aggregation, as well as reasoning. By converting the existing CIM model into a format that can be processed by semantic web tools, these limitations can be overcome. This paper describes how CIM can be converted into a Web Ontology Language (OWL) ontology including constructs for which no obvious direct conversion exists, such as CIM qualifiers.
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- Object Property
- Object Constraint Language
- Common Information Model
- Object Constraint Language Expression
- Object Constraint Language Constraint
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Textor, A., Stynes, J., Kroeger, R. (2010). Transformation of the Common Information Model to OWL. In: Daniel, F., Facca, F.M. (eds) Current Trends in Web Engineering. ICWE 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6385. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16985-4_15
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