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VPIN: An Event Based Knowledge Inference for a User Centric Information System

Authors:
Netzahualcoyotl Ornelas
Noëmie Simoni
Chunyang Yin
Antoine Boutignon

Keywords: User-centric approach, information model, QoS, State, inference

Abstract:
In the Next Generation Network, the telecommunication environment becomes more and more heterogeneous and mobile (concerning user, terminal, network, service). User must be the central point of the consideration due to this ambient and dynamic network environment. The future information systems should be user oriented and have to perform well with ever changing of the telecom environment due to mobility and usage. Unfortunately, the existing solutions are traditionally inspired by the methodologies which are object-oriented, application related, which leads a semantic gap between the user new requirements and the real environment. In this paper, to reduce the mentioned semantic gap, we propose to adopt a vision of User Centric and a common information model as the departure point. We propose a persistent VPIN (Virtual Private Information Network) as a knowledge base applying this information model. Therefore, VPIN is able to take into account all the heterogeneous elements in the NGN context and be independent of any application. To mange the dynamicity of the ambient environment, we propose that the VPIN acts as an inference through the events handing. To insure that the events can be handled automatically, we propose alternative ways to manage and update the VPIN.

Pages: 29 to 45

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2009. Used with permission.

Publication date: June 7, 2009

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2652