The automation of policy refinement, whilst promising great benefits for policy-based
management, has hitherto received relatively little treatment in the literature, with few …

We describe a method for policy refinement. The refinement process involves stages of
decomposition, operationalization, deployment and re-refinement, and operates on policies …

Policy refinement, which is the primary measure to realize the intention of policy-based
management, is playing a pivotal role in the management of policy-based distributed …

In the context of the automated technical management of distributed ambient-assisted-living
healthcare systems, we employ high-level policies which describe the abstract requirements …

People must have usable tools in order to author and maintain high-quality policies. In this
paper we discuss policy templates as a mechanism for policy authoring. We believe that …

We are investigating computing platform-independent policy frameworks to specify, analyze,
and deploy security and networking policies. The goal is to provide easy to use mechanisms …

In both data networks and telecommunication networks we are seeing a substantial growth
in the number of policy engines and policy-enabled services and applications. We argue …

Despite several research studies, the effective analysis of policy based systems remains a
significant challenge. Policy analysis should at least (i) be expressive (ii) take account of …

As the interest in using policy-based approaches for systems management grows, it is
becoming increasingly important to develop methods for performing analysis and refinement …

Policy refinement is a key but still unsolved area of policy based management. Goal oriented
requirements engineering methodologies have been suggested as a prominent alternative …