BEHAVIOUR MODEL FOR A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK

摘要

The invention relates to a method for enabling generation of a behaviour model for at least a part of a communications network, which method utilizes a semantically rich ontology-based network model comprising an ontology of which instances represent different events/actions that may occur in the network, as well as probability information indicating the probabilistic correlation between said events/actions. The method comprises the step of creating, in a semantic ontology-based modelling language, a modelling entity having at least three properties of which: a first property is a reference to a first instance of said network model ontology, which first instance hence represents a first event/action; a second property is a reference to a second instance of said network model ontology, which second instance hence represents a second event/action; and a third property is a numerical value based on said probability information and representing the probability of said second event/action occurring given said first event/action.