Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks

1. Front Matter

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2. Policy Specification and Analysis

   1. Author Obliged to Submit Paper before 4 July: Policies in an Enterprise Specification

      • James Cole, John Derrick, Zoran Milosevic, Kerry Raymond

      Pages 1-17

   2. The Ponder Policy Specification Language

      • Nicodemos Damianou, Naranker Dulay, Emil Lupu, Morris Sloman

      Pages 18-38

   3. IPSec/VPN Security Policy: Correctness, Conflict Detection, and Resolution

      • Zhi Fu, S. Felix Wu, He Huang, Kung Loh, Fengmin Gong, Ilia Baldine et al.

      Pages 39-56

   4. Monitors for History-Based Policies

      • Jan Chomicki, Jorge Lobo

      Pages 57-72

3. RBAC and Security Policy

   1. A Type/Domain Security Policy for Internet Transmission, Sharing, and Archiving of Medical and Biological Data

      • Roberto Viviani

      Pages 73-87

   2. Tower: A Language for Role Based Access Control

      • Michael Hitchens, Vijay Varadharajan

      Pages 88-106

   3. Translating Role-Based Access Control Policy within Context

      • Jean Bacon, Michael Lloyd, Ken Moody

      Pages 107-119

   4. Model-Based Tool-Assistance for Packet-Filter Design

      • Ingo Lück, Christian Schäfer, Heiko Krumm

      Pages 120-136

4. Network Policy Realization

   1. Policy Based SLA Management in Enterprise Networks

      • Dinesh Verma, Mandis Beigi, Raymond Jennings

      Pages 137-152

   2. Integrating Goal Specification in Policy-Based Management

      • Mark Bearden, Sachin Garg, Woei-jyh Lee

      Pages 153-170

   3. Taxonomy and Description of Policy Combination Methods

      • Yasusi Kanada

      Pages 171-184

   4. Issues in Managing Soft QoS Requirements in Distributed Systems Using a Policy-Based Framework

      • Hanan Lutfiyya, Gary Molenkamp, Michael Katchabaw, Michael Bauer

      Pages 185-201

5. Perspectives on Policy Architectures

   1. A Policy Based Management Architecture for Large Scale Active Communication Systems

      • Ian W. Marshall, Paul Mckee

      Pages 202-213

   2. Policy-Driven Management of Agent Systems

      • Antonio Corradi, Naranker Dulay, Rebecca Montanari, Cesare Stefanelli

      Pages 214-229

   3. On Policy-Based Extensible Hierarchical Network Management in QoS-Enabled IP Networks

      • Paris Flegkas, Panos Trimintzios, George Pavlou, Ilias Adrikopoulos, Carlos F. Calvacanti

      Pages 230-246

   4. Towards Extensible Policy Enforcement Points

      • Raouf Boutaba, Andreas Polyrakis

      Pages 247-261

6. Back Matter

   Pages 263-263

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Policy based systems are the subject of a wide range of activities in univer- ties, standardisation bodies, and within industry. They have a wide spectrum of applications ranging from quality of service management within networks to - curity and enterprise modelling. This Lecture Notes volume collects the papers presented at the workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks held at the Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Bristol, UK in January 2001. After a rigorous review process 16 papers were selected from 43 submissions. Within the Internet community there is considerable interest in policy based networking. A number of companies have announced tools to support the sp- i?cation and deployment of policies. Much of this work is focused on policies for quality of service management within networks and the Internet Engineering and Distributed Management Task Force (IETF/DMTF) is actively working on standards related to this area. The security community has focused on the speci?cation and analysis of - cess control policy which has evolved into the work on Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). There has been work over a number of years in the academic c- munity on speci?cation and analysis of policies for distributed systems mostly concentrating on authorisation policies. Although there are strong similarities in the concepts and techniques used by the di?erent communities there is no commonly accepted terminology or notation for specifying policies.

• Agent Systems
• Distributed Processing
• Enterprise Networks
• IP Networking
• Internet
• Network Security
• Open Systems
• Quality of Service
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• Security Policies
• Service Management
• Web-Based-Systems
• distributed systems

• Department of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK

  Morris Sloman, Emil C. Lupu

• Bell Labs, NJ, USA

  Jorge Lobo

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