Telecommunications Service Domain Ontology: Semantic Interoperation Foundation of Intelligent Integrated Services

Abstract

Network is the bearer of services and services are the soul of network. The convergent network extends the original communications service type and gradually forms new convergent services which integrate the traditional telecommunication services and a large number of value-added services or contents on Internet (Kolberg et al., 2010). The integrated service is essentially to handle the data and services across heterogeneous networks and service platforms. Facing the heterogeneity and diversity of service resources, integrated services need to run in a multi-terminal, multi-access network and multi-platform heterogeneous environment. These tremendous changes of service environment present a significant interoperability challenge for traditional service provisioning theory. Nowadays, the provision of context-awareness, adaptive personalized services is the development goal of future ubiquitous network (Park et al., 2009). It can enable seamless information exchange between humans, with humans and with entities (e.g., mobile devices), as well as entities and entities at any time, any place and in any way. To meet the development needs of adaptive personalized convergent services, dynamic service discovery and composition technologies are explored widely in the telecommunication service field (Bashah et al., 2010; Niazi & Mahmoud, 2009).