Conference Description:
The symposium brings together researchers and practitioners working on policy-based systems across a wide range of application domains including policy-based networking, privacy, trust and security management, autonomic computing, pervasive systems and enterprise systems. POLICY 2012 is the 13th in a series of successful events, which have provided a forum for discussion and collaboration between researchers, developers and users of policy-based systems.
In addition to the areas mentioned above, we specifically encourage this year contributions on policy-based techniques in support of Data Management, Cloud computing and Enterprise Service Oriented applications as well as the use of reasoning, verification and learning techniques in policy based systems.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Formal aspects and theory
Models for access control, usage control, trust, privacy
Specifications, refinement, analysis, reasoning
Implementation techniques, architectures, tools
Policy-based data management
Policy systems for mobile, cloud and ubiquitous computing
Policy-based networking
AI approaches, machine learning, agents, natural languages
HCI and usability aspects
Theoretical and practical spects of federation of policy sets
Organisational, ethical, legal aspects, standards
Case studies, real-life deployments and experiences