Towards topic maps for a promise theory based configuration management

Abstract

Knowledge management is the major challenge of today. Capturing expert information in a knowledge base that allows non-experts to locate it requires a carefully designed knowledge model. We attempt to discover whether the relationship between Topic Maps and Promise Theory can make configuration knowledge management easier, due to the promise model itself. Topic Maps is an ISO standard for representation and interchange of knowledge. Promise Theory on the other hand is a modeling approach which can be used to model a number of other things including a Policy based configuration management.