Evaluation of dynamic conflict avoidance algorithm

Dynamic system management may involve interaction between independent decision-making components which can lead to conflicts. Policy-based Managers Coordination (PobMC) was proposed as an adaptive framework that may handle such conflicts. In PobMC, policies are used to adapt the system behavior, coordinate managers´ tasks and allow us to decouple the adaptation concerns from the application code. Thus, it is required to ensure whether the governing policies are enforced correctly. In this paper we check and evaluate the dynamic conflict avoidance algorithm proposed in our previous works. Policy combination algorithms (PACs) concepts are used in the analysis and the evaluation to avoid policy conflicts and to reach a unique decision.