Computational ontology of network operations
Authors: 
Alessandro Oltramari, 
Lorrie Faith Cranor, Robert J. Walls, Patrick McDanielAuthors Info & Claims
Alessandro Oltramari, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Robert J. Walls, Patrick McDanielAuthors Info & ClaimsPages 318 - 323
Abstract
In this article we outline an ontology of secure operations in cyberspace, describing its primary characteristics through some basic modeling examples. We make the case for adopting a rigorous semantic model of cyber security to overcome the current limits of the state of the art, namely lack of comprehensive knowledge representation and effective automatic reasoning functionalities.
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