Welcome to the 7th IEEE Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (Policy 2006) which will be held June 5-7 2006 at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
Held every year since 1999, Policy 2006, is the primary forum for technical exchange on the research and standards related to policies for networks and distributed systems. Policy 2006 will present up-to-date approaches for policy specifications, integration with management systems and new applications of policies.
The policy workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on policy-based systems across a wide range of application areas including policy-based networking, security management, storage area networking, and enterprise systems. Policy 2006 is the 7th in a series of successful workshops that since 1999 have provided a forum for discussion and collaboration between researchers, developers and users of policy-based systems. This year, in addition to the latest research results from the communities working in the areas mentioned above, we encourage contributions on policy-based techniques in support of: On-demand computing/Utility Computing, SLA/Contract based Management, Virtualization and Policy-based collaboration.
POLICY 2006 invites contributions on all aspects of policy-based computing. Papers must describe original work and must not have been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. Submitted papers will be evaluated for technical contribution, originality, and significance. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Policy Definition and Models:
¸ Abstractions and languages for policy specification processes
¸ Classification and clarification of policy definitions
¸ Syntax and semantics of policies
¸ Methodologies, and tools for discovering, specifying, reasoning about, and refining policy
¸ Extensions and refinements of policy standards
¸ Relationships between policies, e.g. hierarchies
¸ Analyzing policies
¸ Mapping from policies to management services
Policy Applications:
¸ Policy models for access-control, resource allocation, systems management, QoS adaptation, intrusion detection and privacy
¸ Policy based networking, including active networks, mobile systems and e-commerce
¸ Business rules and organizational modeling
¸ Trust models and trust management policies
¸ Policies for pervasive computing
¸ Case studies of applying policy-based technologies
¸ Policy-based autonomic computing
¸ Policy-based utility computing
¸ SLA/contract based Management
¸ Policy based collaboration
Dates:
Paper submission deadline: 10 December 2005
Author notification: 21 February 2006
Camera ready copy due: 21 March 2006
Workshop dates: 5-7 June 2006