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Communications and Network, 2013, 5, 211-219 /10.4236/cn.2013.53025 Published Online August 2013 (/journal/cn) Automated Service Management for Semantic IP Multimedia System [S-IMS] Kidd S. C. Toh, S. M. F. D. Syed Mustapha Faculty of Information Technology Universiti Tun Abdul Razak, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Email: kidd.tohsc@, smfdsm@ Received November 29, 2012; revised January 10, 2013; accepted February 10, 2013 Copyright ? 2013 Kidd S. C. Toh, S. M. F. D. Syed Mustapha. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Com- mons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ABSTRACT Next Generation Network (NGN) has drawn great attention by the researchers and telecommunication industries as the future generation in the communication technologies and services. The interest covers all aspects on NGN from the global standards, architecture and services. The management of services provided in the NGN environment has posed great challenges due to the heterogeneity of the service protocols, service requirements and specifications and service functionalities. The research proposes enhancement of the automated service management through embedding the se- mantic service descriptions that can be referenced to the service ontology for service creation and management into the Next Generation Network, which will become Semantic Next Generation Network (SNGN). Keywords: IP Mutimedia System; Web Service; Session Initiated Protocols; Service Oriented Architecture; Semantic Next Generation Network 1. Introduction based architecture for automated service creation and management of IMS or namely Semantic Next Genera- tion Network (SNGN). The service architecture is de- veloped around the IMS functionalities and several ma- jority protocols. The principle and outline of the con- verged technologies, diff