7th International IEEE Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks

London, Ontario CANADA

 

June 05, 2006

 

8:00 – 9:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast

 

9:00-9:15 Welcome

 

9:15–10:15 Invited Talk: Anne Anderson, SUN Microsystems

Policies in the Alphabet Soup

Abstract: A critical look at "policy" in various standards groups, accepting fairly loose definitions of both "policy" and   "standard".  Where, how, and what kinds of policy are being used?   Where is policy not being used, but possibly should be?  From an industry point of view, where is the standardization of policy languages and policy applications headed?

 

10:15- 10:30 Coffee break

 

10:30-12:30 Session 1: Internet and Database Policies

Chair: Jorge Lobo

Bio-inspired Policy Based Management (bioPBM) for Autonomic Communication Systems 

                     S. Balasubramaniam, K. Barrett, J. Strassner, W. Donnelly, S. van der Meer

Workload Class Importance Policy in Autonomic Database Management  Systems

                     H. Boughton, P. Martin, W. Powley, R. Horman

A Context-Aware, Policy-based Framework for the Management of   MANETs

                     A. Hadjiantonis,  A.Malatras, G. Pavlou

 

12:00-1:30 Lunch (Delaware Hall Dining Room)

 

1:30-3:00 Session 2: Access Control Policies

                        Chair:  Anne Anderson

Access Control Inference And Feedback For Policy Managers: A Fine-Grained Analysis

                 R. Vatsavai, S. Chakravarthy, M. Mohania

Toward Information Sharing: Benefit And Risk Access Control (BARAC)

                  A.   Brodsky, S. Jajodia, L. Zhan 

Policy Languages for Digital Identity in Federation Systems

                 E. Bertino, A.  Spantzel, A. Squicciarini

 

3:00-3:30 Coffee Break

 

3:30-5:00 Short Paper Session 1

                  Chair: Duminda Wijesekera

End-to-End Model Driven Policy Based Network Management

                  J. Strassner, D. Raymer, E. Lehtihet, S. van der Meer

An N-State Driven Policy-based Network Management to Control End-End Network Behaviors

                  S. Kowtha, X. Jiang

PBMAN: A Policy-based Management Framework for Ambient Networks

Kamienski, J. Fidalgo, D. Sadok, J. Lima, L. Pereira, B. Ohlman

Self-configuration for Radio Access Networks

                 J. Baliosian, H. Oliver, E.  Cudrado, B. Danev, A. Devitt, G. Parr

 

5:00-6:00 Birds of the Feather (Middlesex College 316)
June 06, 2006

 

8:15-9:00  Continental Breakfast

 

9:00-10:00   Invited Talk: David Wiseman, The University of Western Ontario

It’s a Good Idea, But….

Abstract: A critical look at "policy" and why it can never be implemented as cleanly or easily as initial designs imply. We describe the set of objects which policies do not control. From a practical point of view, what is it about the deployment of policy management that creates

curmudgeons?

 

10:00-10:30  Break

 

10:30 – 12:00 Session 3:  Policy Management

                        Chair: Arosha Bandara

A Quantitative Approach to SLA Objective Setting and Investment  Allocation to Improve

Business Results

                    A. Moura, J. Sauve, J. Jornada, E. Radziuk

A Policy-based Management System with Automatic Policy Selection and  Creation Capabilities

by Using Singular Value Decomposition Technique 

                     H. Chan, T. Kwok

A Scalable History-Based Policy Engine

                     P. Gama, C. Riberio, P. Ferreira

 

12:00-1:30 Lunch (Grad Club, Ground Floor of Middlesex College)

 

 

1:30.-3:00 Short Paper Session  2

                Chair: Lalana Kagali

Trust Meta-Policies for Flexible and Dynamic Policy Based Trust Management

                  K. Quinn, D. Lewis, D. O’Sullivan, V. Wade

Domain-Independent, Composable Web Services Policy Assertions

                 Anne Anderson

Distributed Control Enabling Consistent MAC Policies and IDS based on a Meta-Policy Approach

                 M. Blanc, J. Briffaut, J. Lalande, T. Toinard

Specifying Data Sharing Agreements

                 V. Swarup, L. Seligman, A. Rosenthal

 

3:00-3:30 Break

 

3:30-4:30 Panel

 

Chair: Naftly Minsky

Title:  Beyond Singleton Policies: Interoperability, Composition, Hierarchies, etc

 Panelists: Anne Anderson, Jorge Lobo, Hanan Lutfiyya, Morris Sloman, Marianne

                  Winslett

 

 

6:00 Banquet (The Great Hall,  3335D Somerville House)
June 07, 2006

 

8:15-9:00  Continental Breakfast

 

9:00-10:30 Session 4: Tools, Rules and Goals

            Chair: Rita Chadha

Cauldron: A Policy-based Design Tool

                 L. Ramshaw, A. Sahai, J. Saxe, S.  Singhal

A Distributed Tabling Algorithm for Rule Based Policy Systems

                 M. Alves,  C. Damasio, W. Nejdl, D. Olmedilla

A Functional Environment Solution for Goal-oriented Policy Refinement

                 J.   Rubio-Loyola, J. Serrat, M. Charalambides, P. Flegkas, G. Pavlou

 

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

 

10:45-12:00 Session 5: Coordination

            Chair: Paulo Ferreira

Coordination between Distributed PDPs

                    D. Chadwick, L. Su, O. Otenko, R.  Laborde

A Compositional Event & Time-based Policy Model

                    H. Janicke, A. Cau, F.   Siewe, H. Zedan, K. Jones

A Basis for Comparing Characteristics of Policy Systems

                    S. Calo and J.  Lobo

 

12:00-1:00 Lunch (Delaware Hall Dining Room)

 

1:00-2:30 Session 6: Access Control and Evaluation

Chair: Emil Lupu

Substituting COPS-PR: An Evaluation of NETCONF and SOAP for Policy Provisioning

                     T. Franco, W. Lima, A. Beller, G. Pereira, R. Corezola, L. Granville

Self-Describing Delegation Networks for the Web

                     L. Kagal, T. Berners-Lee

Regulated Delegation in Distributed Systems

                      X. Ao,  N.Minsky

 

2:30-2:45 Coffee Break

2:45-4:10  Short Paper Session 3

                  Chair: Morris Sloman

Enforceability vs. Accountability in Electronic Policies

       T. Breaux, A. Anton, C. Karat, J. Karat

Policy Management of Enterprise Systems: A Requirements Study  

       P.   Kolari, T. Finin, Y. Yesha, K. Lyons, J. Hawkins, S. Perelgut

Inferring Access-Control Policy Properties via Machine Learning

      E. Martin, T. Xie

Using a Policy Language to Control Tuple-space Synchronization in a Mobile                     Environment

     V. Jittamas, P. Linington