CIM VIsualizer & Analyzer:

CIMvian

Kalidindi S. Raju

October 26, 2007

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About

• Authored and created by Kalidindi S. Raju (Srini Raju)

• To be available free from UISOL with a limited license at http://uisol.com/cimvian (planned release date November 9, 2007)

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CIMvian Intro

• CIMvian is a CIM/RDF based graphical Network Model Viewer and Editor with features to browse and navigate through an entire network model with drill down and filtering capabilities.

• CIMvian also permits viewing of the incremental model changes

• CIMvian features a UML style RDF Schema editor, Validator and an embedded SPARQL analyzer

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CIMvian

Open CIM Instance File

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CIM/RDF Instance Model

All the defined Class Names in CIM/RDF Model are shown in the left frame when you load the Model. An instance of a class can be seen by expanding each of the nodes. The instances

show both the name and the RDF ID.

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CIM/RDF Instance Model

Mouse-Over a node displays its

properties

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CIM/RDF Instance Model

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Navigation

Right Click

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Navigation/Draw subgraph

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Attribute Editor

Double Clicking a node brings up attribute editor

window

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Save Model

Clicking Save in the Attribute Editor only modifies the

attribute. Click File->Save to

save the modified

CIM/RDF file

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Find/Search

Cntrl-F or Edit->Find opens the search dialog.

The searches are case insensitive. The display will

change if the search is

successful

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Incremental Model

An Incremental Model can be

applied to current Model.

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Incremental Model

All the forward differences are shown in Green

and Reverse Differences in

Red

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Incremental Model

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Incremental Model

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Display Filters

View->Display Filters.

Check the nodes for which you don’t want to

draw the subgraph.

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Instance Model/SPARQL

SPARQL queries can be run against the loaded model.

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CIM/RDF Schema

File->Open CIM Schema.

All the classes are shown in left

frame.

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CIM/RDF Schema/Properties

Double clicking a class displays all its attributes.

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CIM/RDF Schema/Extend

Right Click

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CIM/RDF Schema/New Class

Right Click, Create Class, to

create a new Class

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CIM/RDF Schema/New Class

Displays the newly created

class

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CIM/RDF Schema/New Property

Create a new property

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CIM/RDF Schema/Properties

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CIM/RDF Schema/SPARQL

SPARQL queries can be run against the

loaded RDF Schema.

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Information

• Planned release date: November 9, 2007

• Download: http://uisol.com/cimvian

• Contact: cimvian@uisol.com