This paper presents the architecture, the policy schema, and the policy specifications necessary to accomplish effective management of the Application Level Active Networking (ALAN) environment. Using ALAN, developers can engineer applications through the network by utilising platforms (active servers) on which 3 party software (proxylets) can be dynamically loaded and run. Redirection of packe...

When managing heterogeneous socioecological systems, decision-makers must choose a spatial resolution at which to define management policies. Complex spatial policies allow managers to better reflect underlying ecological and economic heterogeneity, but incur higher compliance and enforcement costs. To choose the most appropriate management resolution, we need to characterize the relationship b...

Tehran Municipality has had two five-year plans so far and the third one is being formulated these days. However, investigating the sector relating to the human resources shows that there is a gap between present condition and the optimal situation in several domains. This article is an attempt to investigate the five-year plans in the domain of human resources via a practical model of forecast...

Distributed connguration management is intended to support the activities of projects that span multiple sites. NUCM is a testbed that we are developing to help us explore the issues of distributed connguration management. NUCM separates connguration management repositories (i.e., the stores for versions of artifacts) from connguration management policies (i.e., the procedures by which the vers...

Regulatory compliance is a hot topic for enterprises. The increasing number of laws, including SOX, GLB, HIPAA and various governmental directives on data protection require enterprises to put in place complex processes to comply with related policies. Among other things, this involves the analysis, modeling, deployment, enforcement and audit of these policies. Privacy management is a core aspe...

As distributed collaborative applications and architectures are adopting policy based management for tasks such as access control, network security and data privacy, the management and consolidation of a large number of policies is becoming a crucial component of such policy based systems. In large-scale distributed collaborative applications like web services, there is the need of analyzing po...

This thesis concentrates on the optimization of large-scale management policies under conditions of risk and uncertainty. In paper I, we address the problem of solving large-scale spatial and temporal natural resource management problems. To model these types of problems, the framework of graph-based Markov decision processes (GMDPs) can be used. Two algorithms for computation of high-quality m...

Radio spectrum is a scarce and non-reproducible natural resource hence spectrum management policies play a vital role in ensuring the efficient use of spectrum. Optimum usage of radio resources will be done by sharing these resources among various radio services. Last two decade has seen a tremendous growth in Indian telecommunications because of effective policies launched by governing body an...

The Ponder language provides a common means of specifying security policies that map onto various access control implementation mechanisms for firewalls, operating systems, databases and Java. It supports obligation policies that are event triggered condition-action rules for policy based management of networks and distributed systems. Ponder can also be used for security management activities ...