Harnessing Models for Policy Conflict Analysis

Policy conflict analysis processes based solely on the examination of policy language constructs can not readily discern the semantics associated with the managed system for which the policies are being defined. However, by developing analysis processes that can link the constructs of a policy language to the entities of an information model, we can harness knowledge relating to relationships and associations, constraint information, behavioural specifications codified by finite state machines, and extensive semantic information expressed via ontologies to provide powerful policy analysis processes. 1 Research Problem Existing approaches to policy conflict detection are primarily concerned with analysing the information contained within individual policies defined for a specific managed system. However, this approach, in general, does not take into account application specific semantics. This semantic information can be represented using information models and ontologies relating to a ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: AIMS
• Authors: Steven Davy, Brendan Jennings
• Keywords: AIMS 2007, Computer Networks, Policy Conflict, Policy Conflict Analysis, Policy Conflict Detection