KAoS Policy and Domain Services: Toward a Description-Logic Approach to Policy Representation, Deconfliction, and Enforcement

  • Authors:
  • A. Uszok;J. Bradshaw;R. Jeffers;N. Suri;P. Hayes;M. Breedy;L. Bunch;M. Johnson;S. Kulkarni;J. Lott

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. West Florida;Univ. West Florida;Univ. West Florida;Univ. West Florida;Univ. West Florida;Univ. West Florida;Univ. West Florida;Univ. West Florida;Univ. West Florida;Univ. West Florida

  • Venue:
  • POLICY '03 Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe our initial implementation ofthe KAoS policy and domain services. While primarilyoriented to the dynamic and complex requirements ofsoftware agent applications, the services are also beingadapted to general-purpose grid computing and webservices environments as well. The KAoS services relyon a DAML description-logic-based ontology of thecomputational environment, application context, and thepolicies themselves that enables runtime extensibilityand adaptability of the system, as well as the ability toanalyze policies relating to entities described at differentlevels of abstraction.