Domains: a framework for structuring management policy
Network and distributed systems management
Conflict analysis for management policies
Proceedings of the fifth IFIP/IEEE international symposium on Integrated network management V : integrated management in a virtual world: integrated management in a virtual world
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Towards A Role-Based Framework for DistributedSystems Management
Journal of Network and Systems Management
Management Policy Service for Distributed Systems
SDNE '96 Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Services in Distributed and Networked Environments (SDNE '96)
Modality conflicts in semantics aware access control
ICWE '06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Web engineering
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Management of today‘s distributed systems is becoming increasingly complex. There is an obvious requirement for a flexible mechanism to help manage such systems. Rule-based management is one such mechanism. However, in order for rule-based management to become widely usable a method is required by which conflicts between management policies (defined as rules) can be identified and resolved. This paper creates a set theoretic model for rules as a trituple of the relationship between the subject, action and target of a policy. It also identifies two classes of policy set — ‘syntactically easy policy set‘ (SEPS) and ‘syntactically non-easy policy set‘ (SNEPS). SEPSs are policies which are sets of all the Cartesian products of its subjects, actions and targets, whereas SNEPSs are only a subset of that Cartesian product. Conflict analysis of SEPSs has been handled in other papers; this paper addresses conflict analysis of SNEPSs. A method for resolving conflict is suggested. The paper also raises some issues that arise when considering a database of policies.