Methods for Conflict Resolution in Policy-Based Management Systems

  • Authors:
  • Nicole Dunlop;Jadwiga Indulska;Kerry Raymond

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • EDOC '03 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Enterprise Distributed Object Computing
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

While developments in distributed object computing environments,such as the Common Object Request Broker Architecture(CORBA) [17] and the Telecommunication Intelligent NetworkArchitecture (TINA) [16], have enabled interoperabilitybetween domains in large open distributed systems, managingthe resources within such systems has become an increasinglycomplex task. This challenge has been considered for severalyears within the distributed systems management research communityand policy-based management has recently emerged asa promising solution.Large evolving enterprises present a significant challengefor policy-based management partly due to the requirement tosupport both mutual transparency and individual autonomy betweendomains [2], but also because the fluidity and complexityof interactions occurring within such environments requires anability to cope with the coexistence of multiple, potentially inconsistentpolicies. This paper discusses the need of providingboth dynamic (run-time) and static (compile-time) conflict detectionand resolution for policies in such systems and builds onour earlier conflict detection work [7, 8] to introduce the methodsfor conflict resolution in large open distributed systems.