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Visualization-Based Study on Information Specification Languages for Network Management Using Formal Concept Analysis

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Systems and Virtualization Management. Standards and the Cloud (SVM 2009)

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Application of various different management interfaces and protocols leads to urgent requirements of management mediation that introduces management hierarchies, and mediation of management information is the basics for the study on management hierarchy. This paper focuses on examining information specification languages available in network management domain from the viewpoint of information granularity, analyzes the modeling aspects of these languages and discusses their articulation problem based on visualization by means of concept lattices benefited from Formal Concept Analysis. The examples provided in this paper explain how visualization plays a prominent role in studying management information specification languages and their articulation by alignment.

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  1. Institute of Computer Network and Communication, Huazhong Normal University, 430079, Wuhan, P.R. China

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  2. Oracle, 80021, Broomfield, CO, USA

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  3. Services Computing Technology and System Lab, Cluster and Grid Computing Lab, School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430074, Wuhan, China

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Xu, H., Xiao, D. (2010). Visualization-Based Study on Information Specification Languages for Network Management Using Formal Concept Analysis. In: Boursas, L., Carlson, M., Jin, H., Sibilla, M., Wold, K. (eds) Systems and Virtualization Management. Standards and the Cloud. SVM 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 71. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14944-3_3

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