Characterizing problems for realizing policies in self-adaptive and self-managing systems
Sowmya Balasubramanian, Ron Desmarais, Hausi A. Müller, Ulrike Stege, S. Venkatesh · 2011
Self-adaptive and self-managing systems optimize their own behaviour according to high-level objectives and constraints. One way for administrators to specify goals for such optimization problems effectively is using policies. Over the past decade, researchers produced various approaches, models and techniques for policy specification in different areas including distributed systems, communications networks, web services, autonomic computing, and cloud computing. Research challenges range from characterizing policies for ease of specification in particular application domains to categorizing policies for achieving solution qualities for particular algorithmic techniques.