Semantic Reasoning for Adaptive Management of Telecommunications Networks

Semantics can provide the basis for problem solving in a setting such as telecommunications network management, which maintains multiple simultaneous ontologies for the same set of entities. To avoid overbuilding and to improve quality, network operators desire both a close match between application requirements and allocated resources as well as the capability to perform modifications at will. This paper presents a concept for solving the relevant problem of network resource allocation through semantic reasoning techniques and identifies three specific domains for development of common ontologies