Software-defined networking (SDN) has received a great deal of attention from both
academia and industry in recent years. Studies on SDN have brought a number of …

As communications networks become increasingly dynamic, heterogeneous, less reliable,
and larger in scale, it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to effectively manage these …

The policy continuum is a fundamental component of any policy-based management
implementation for autonomic networking, but as of yet has no formal operational semantics …

The policy continuum, one of the cornerstones of autonomic network management, provides
a framework for the development of stratified sets of policy languages, tied together by a …

This paper aims to provide a roadmap on how to extend our understanding of the biological
analogy applied to a single computing platform (Autonomic Computing) towards a larger …

The management of security policies has become increasingly difficult for the security expert
given the number of domains to manage their extent and their complexity. A security expert …

A key part of the policy authoring process is analysis of the potential for newly created or
modified policies to conflict with already deployed policies. We propose an approach for …

Autonomic networking systems must be designed to achieve an appropriate balance
between the operation of decentralized algorithms and processes that seek to maintain …

Autonomic computing is recognized as one of the most promizing solutions to address the
increasingly complex task of distributed environments' administration. In this context, many …

We present a policy conflict analysis process that makes use of pre-defined semantic
models of an application to perform effective and efficient conflict analysis. The process is …