A Model Based Approach for Policy Tool Generation and Policy Analysis

Author

Barrett, Keara ; Davy, Steven ; Strassner, John ; Jennings, Brendan ; van der Meer, Sven ; Donnelly, William

Author_Institution

Waterford Inst. of Technol., Waterford

fYear

2007

fDate

2-6 July 2007

Firstpage

99

Lastpage

105

Abstract

We outline an approach to policy specification and analysis in which an information model is used as the starting point for semi-automated generation of an integrated suite of languages, tools and an ontology. The suite includes separate domain-specific languages for the specification of systems structure and policies respectively, editors and checkers for these languages, and a baseline ontology that can be augmented with semantic information to support policy analyses processes. We describe a prototypical realisation of the approach, showing how the languages, tools and ontology are used to support policy transformation and conflict detection processes.

Keywords

computer network management; ontologies (artificial intelligence); baseline ontology; domain-specific languages; model based approach; policy analysis; policy specification; policy tool generation; semi-automated generation; Communication networks; DSL; Documentation; Domain specific languages; Information analysis; Object oriented modeling; Ontologies; Prototypes; Software systems; Software tools; Model Driven Development; Network Management; Ontologies; Policy Based Management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Information Infrastructure Symposium, 2007. GIIS 2007. First International

Conference_Location

Marrakech

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1375-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1376-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GIIS.2007.4404174

Filename

4404174