Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY'03)
KAoS Policy and Domain Services: Toward a Description-Logic Approach to Policy Representation, Deconfliction, and Enforcement
Lake Como, Italy
June 04-June 06
ISBN: 0-7695-1933-4
In this paper, we describe our initial implementation of the KAoS policy and domain services. While primarily oriented to the dynamic and complex requirements of software agent applications, the services are also being adapted to general-purpose grid computing and web services environments as well. The KAoS services rely on a DAML description-logic-based ontology of the computational environment, application context, and the policies themselves that enables runtime extensibility and adaptability of the system, as well as the ability to analyze policies relating to entities described at different levels of abstraction.
Index Terms:
policy, agent, ontology, DAML, domains, KAoS, description logic, policy conflict resolution
Citation:
A. Uszok, J. Bradshaw, R. Jeffers, N. Suri, P. Hayes, M. Breedy, L. Bunch, M. Johnson, S. Kulkarni, J. Lott, "KAoS Policy and Domain Services: Toward a Description-Logic Approach to Policy Representation, Deconfliction, and Enforcement," policy, pp.93, Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY'03), 2003