Adam Czarnecki

VALIDATION OF AN AGENT AND ONTOLOGY-BASED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT SYSTEM

The aim of this article is to present a new method of the validation of an agent and ontology-based information technology assessment system. The characteristics of the proposed multi-agent system are presented followed by a description of some important details regarding the ontology functionality of this system. Then an approach to its verification process is proposed. The approach employs a semantic description of system variables and implements a knowledge representation model in ontology web language (OWL). The article concludes with an illustrative case study for the presented methodology.

IT business standards as an ontology domain

The aim of this paper is to report a selection of Semantic Web aspects pertaining to ontology development activities in the domain of the IT business standard (TOGAF 9) such as formulating competency questions, conceptualization of the domain, resolution of the source knowledge deficiency and applying common design patterns in the OWL formalization. Authors also try to determine target groups that may benefit from such ontology models.

Ontology as a tool for the IT management standards support

In this paper the authors discuss the initial idea of using ontologies to model requirements of the standards that support IT management processes. The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) is set as an example. A need for transition from the generic model do the organization-specific one is indicated. The described example serves as a ground for considering the usefulness of such modeling approach in the wider spectrum of projects in the production engineering/process management fields.

Ontology engineering aspects in the intelligent systems development

The ontology engineering encompasses both, artificial intelligence methods and software engineering discipline. The paper tries to address a selection of aspects pertaining to development activities such as choice of the environmental framework, functionality description, specification methods and roles definition. Authors refer to the ontology development projects they were involved in.

ONTOLOGY-DRIVEN RULE-BASED MODEL FOR AN EXTENSION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE LIBRARY PROCESSES

The aim of this study is to present the stages for building a development model to create information technology (IT) systems for IT service providers. In order to ensure the consistency of the model, a novel solution is proposed where the stages of the models construction are controlled using ontologies dedicated to the ITIL standard. In this article, a description of models used to assess the provider organization, with particular focus on the ITIL model, is presented first. Then, the design stages of a custom graph and rule-based model of development are introduced. Next, the role of ontologies in the assessment of the consistency of ITIL processes is explored. Further, the resulting development model in its general and detailed versions is verified by means of its implementation.