Policy-driven management is gaining popularity today, mainly due to the ever-growing scale
and complexity of large networked systems. In these systems, policies are usually used to …

Security engineering is about protecting assets from harm. The feature interaction problem
occurs when the composition of features leads to undesirable system behaviours. Usually …

The nature of home automation is introduced. It is argued that end users should be able to
define how the home system reacts to changing circumstances. Policies are employed as …

Policies are convenient means to modify system behaviour at run-time. Nowadays, policies
are created in great numbers by different actors, ranging from system administrators to lay …

An approach is presented for flexible management of smart homes, covering both home
automation and telecare. The aim is to allow end users to manage their homes without …

Feature interaction detection methods, whether online or offline, depend on previous
knowledge of conflicts between the actions executed by the features. This knowledge is …

This paper describes a goal-directed, policy-based approach to managing sensor networks
in the context of a wind farm. It describes the use of policies to enable end-users to detect …

Abstract Service licensing enables a broader usage of services and a means for designing
business strategies and relationships. A service license describes the terms and conditions …

Policies exhibit conflicts much as features exhibit interaction. Since policies are defined by
end users, the combinatorial problems involved in detecting conflicts are substantially worse …

Technology to support care at home is a promising alternative to traditional approaches.
However, home care systems present significant technical challenges. For example, it is …