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Communications of the IBIMA
Efficacy of Fuzzy Representation of Knowledge for Integrated Management of Networked Systems
Seyed Shahrestani
School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 457583, Communications of the IBIMA, 9 pages
DOI: 10.5171/2011.457583
Copyright © 2011 Seyed
Shahrestani. This is an open access article distributed under the
Creative Commons Attribution License unported 3.0, which permits
unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,
provided that original work is properly cited.
Abstract
For
most modern networked systems, the traditional element-based management
views are replaced by integrated management structures that take the
nature of the enterprises and the services they provide into account.
These complex systems need capabilities to accommodate for diverse
areas, ranging from administration of elements to provision of services
and management of the enterprise itself. This is not an easy task.
While many automated approaches are in use, to a large extent the
effectiveness of the integrated management depends on understanding the
functions of its components and their relations with one another. For
most organizations, it is impossible to ascertain models that describe
various roles, functions, and interactions of such components in a
precise and yet useful manner. As such, human interactions
are crucial for their proper operations. Human intelligence is for
instance needed to deal with the incoherent and conflicting data with
varying degrees of relevance for managing the tasks in hand. Such a
need is also a direct consequence of the extensive utilization of
linguistic variables in communication amongst staff and managers. In
this work, these points are further discussed leading to elaboration of
ways to utilize fuzzy modeling to improve integrated management
effectiveness. We propose an integrated management design framework,
which is based on multiple agents, where each human role is supported
by an agent. It will be shown that through facilitating the cooperation
among the entities involved in a given task, the framework can result
in improving the effectiveness of the integrated management.
Keywords: Fuzzy logic, Fuzzy Modelling, Integrated Management, Knowledge Granulation, Networked Systems.
Keywords: Fuzzy logic, Fuzzy Modelling, Integrated Management, Knowledge Granulation, Networked Systems.
