Patent ID: 8140680
Filing Date: 2012-03-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for resource management comprising: requesting by a client a semantic description for a manageable resource of an application domain, the manageable resource being associated with a resource of an IT infrastructure of the application domain and the manageable resource providing a web service through which the client can make use of the resource of the IT infrastructure, the semantic description being compliant with a terminology and one or more rules provided by an ontology for the application domain, wherein the manageable resource is characterized by a set of aspects and wherein the semantic description semantically describes the set of aspects; responsive to the client request, obtaining by the client a semantic description for the manageable resource compliant to the terminology of the ontology to semantically describe the set of aspects; and wherein the client further comprises a knowledge base and a reasoner, wherein the client stores the semantic description of the manageable resource in the knowledge base and wherein the method further comprises: