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Ontologies in the Engineering of Management and Autonomic Systems: A Reality Check

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In this article we examine the current trend to employ ontologies in the modelling of management systems and examine the barrier facing the integration of such modelling into the practical engineering of management systems.

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  1. Motorola Labs, Dublin, Ireland

    John Strassner

  2. Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Declan O’Sullivan & David Lewis

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John Strassner is a Fellow of the Technical Staff and directs Motorola’s autonomic computing research. He was a past Fellow of Cisco Systems and the Chief Strategy Officer of Intelliden. His research also includes policy management and knowledge engineering, including ontologies, machine learning and reasoning. He is an IEEE member, and was awarded the Daniel Stokesbury memorial award for excellence in network management. He is also an adjunct professor for the Waterford Institute of Technology in Waterford, Ireland.

He is a Distinguished Fellow of the TeleManagement Forum. He is the Chairman of the Autonomic Communications Forum, and also the Vice-Chair of WG6 (Reconfigurability and 233 Autonomics) in the WWRF. He has published two books and over 140 papers.

Short bio for David Lewis appears at the end of Guest Editorial. Short bio for Declan O’Sullivan appears at the end of the article “Ontological semantics for gathering and routing contextual knowledge in highly distributed autonomic systems” in this issue.

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Strassner, J., O’Sullivan, D. & Lewis, D. Ontologies in the Engineering of Management and Autonomic Systems: A Reality Check. J Netw Syst Manage 15, 5–11 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10922-006-9058-1

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