Patent ID: 8140680

Claim:
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: searching, by the client, the semantic description for import statements related to a part of the ontology, said ontology being created so that each part of the ontology relates to an import statement obtainable by the client on demand; and storing in the reasoner rules related to the ontology, wherein the client invokes the reasoner and the knowledge base in understanding and subsequently processing the semantic description for using the manageable resource.