Using a classification of management policies for policy specification and policy transformation
Proceedings of the fourth international symposium on Integrated network management IV
Conflicts in Policy-Based Distributed Systems Management
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Dynamic Conflict Detection in Policy-Based Management Systems
EDOC '02 Proceedings of the 6th International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference
POLICY '03 Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks
Using Event Calculus to Formalise Policy Specification and Analysis
POLICY '03 Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks
A Policy Language for a Pervasive Computing Environment
POLICY '03 Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks
A Goal-based Approach to Policy Refinement
POLICY '04 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks
Policy Conflict Analysis for Quality of Service Management
POLICY '05 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks
Using Linear Temporal Model Checking for Goal-Oriented Policy Refinement Frameworks
POLICY '05 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks
POLICY '05 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks
A Functional Solution for Goal-Ooriented Policy Refinement
POLICY '06 Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks
Analysis And Classification of IPSec Security Policy Conflicts
FCST '06 Proceedings of the Japan-China Joint Workshop on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology
Policy-Based Network Management: Solutions for the Next Generation (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)
An approach to evaluate policy similarity
Proceedings of the 12th ACM symposium on Access control models and technologies
Taxonomy of conflicts in network security policies
IEEE Communications Magazine
Conflict classification and analysis of distributed firewall policies
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Policy hierarchies for distributed systems management
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning in Network Management
AIMS '09 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security: Scalability of Networks and Services
On harnessing information models and ontologies for policy conflict analysis
IM'09 Proceedings of the 11th IFIP/IEEE international conference on Symposium on Integrated Network Management
Editorial: Detection of semantic conflicts in ontology and rule-based information systems
Data & Knowledge Engineering
A policy authoring process and DEN-ng model extension for federation governance
MACE'10 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE international conference on Modelling autonomic communication environments
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The policy continuum is a fundamental component of any policy-based management implementation for autonomic networking, but as of yet has no formal operational semantics. We propose a policy continuum model and accompanying policy authoring process that demonstrates the key properties that set a continuum apart from a non-hierarchical policy model. As part of the policy authoring process we present a policy conflict analysis algorithm that leverages the information model, making it applicable to arbitrary applications and continuum levels. The approach for policy conflict analysis entails analysing a candidate policy (either newly created or modified) on a pair-wise basis with already deployed policies and potential conflicts between the policies are fed back to the policy author. Central to the approach is a two-phase algorithm which firstly determines the relationships between the pair of policies and secondly applies an application specific conflict pattern to determine if the policies should be flagged as potentially conflicting. In this paper we present the formal policy continuum and two-phase conflict analysis algorithm as part of the policy authoring process, we describe an implementation where we demonstrate the detection of potential conflicts within a policy continuum.