22. A network management system for configuring network element control protocols between network elements in a network represented by a current static network element managed object model comprising one or more managed objects having attributes and instances to represent network resources, the system comprising: a transformer component configured to transform a current static network element managed object model to a machine readable and executable formal network element managed object model; an enriching component communicatively connected to the transformer component, and configured to add formal semantics and formal domain assumptions to the formal network element managed object model; an identifying component configured to identify configuration tasks needed to configure one or more control protocols; a modeling component configured to model a formal configuration task model using information in the formal network element managed object model and information about the configuration tasks; a workflow building component configured to build a formal configuration workflow model using the formal network element managed object model, the formal configuration task model, and external information, wherein the formal workflow configuration model defines relationships between different configuration tasks needed to perform or complete one or more actions comprising one or more configuration tasks; and wherein the transforming component and the modeling component comprise an ontogical forming component configured to: form ontologies representing the current network managed object model and the configuration task model; and generate the formal network element managed object model and the formal configuration task model based on the formed ontologies, respectively.
22. A network management system for configuring network element control protocols between network elements in a network represented by a current static network element managed object model comprising one or more managed objects having attributes and instances to represent network resources, the system comprising: a transformer component configured to transform a current static network element managed object model to a machine readable and executable formal network element managed object model; an enriching component communicatively connected to the transformer component, and configured to add formal semantics and formal domain assumptions to the formal network element managed object model; an identifying component configured to identify configuration tasks needed to configure one or more control protocols; a modeling component configured to model a formal configuration task model using information in the formal network element managed object model and information about the configuration tasks; a workflow building component configured to build a formal configuration workflow model using the formal network element managed object model, the formal configuration task model, and external information, wherein the formal workflow configuration model defines relationships between different configuration tasks needed to perform or complete one or more actions comprising one or more configuration tasks; and wherein the transforming component and the modeling component comprise an ontogical forming component configured to: form ontologies representing the current network managed object model and the configuration task model; and generate the formal network element managed object model and the formal configuration task model based on the formed ontologies, respectively. 25. The system of claim 22 wherein each of the transforming component, the modeling component, and the workflow building component are communicatively connected to an ontology repository that stores the formal models, and wherein the system further comprises: an application database; a network data to ontology instance converting component; an ontology instance to network data converting component; and a controller connected to a user interface, and configured to request the network data and provide a connection to the application database via an interface engine.