CFP : Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks Policy 2001

CFP : Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks Policy 2001
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Policy 2001: Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks 29-31 January 2001 Hosted by: HP Laboratories, Bristol, UK Technical Co-sponsored by IEEE ComSoc (not yet approved) See: http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/events/policy-2001/ for the latest information Policy based systems are the subject of a wide range of activities in universities, standardisation bodies and within industry. They have a wide spectrum of applications ranging from quality of service management within networks to security and enterprise modelling. This workshop will provide a forum for discussion and collaboration between researchers, developers and users of policy based systems. It will bring together the various communities working on policy and follows on from the successful informal Policy Workshop held in November 1999 (see http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/events/policy-99/). Within the Internet community there is considerable interest in Policy Based Networking. A number of companies have announced tools to support the specification and deployment of policies. Much of this work is focused on policies for quality of service management within networks and the Internet Engineering and Distributed Management Task Forces (IETF/DMTF) is actively working on standards related to this area (see http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/research/policies for links). The Security community has focused on the specification and analysis of access control policy which has evolved into the work on Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). There has been work over a number of years in the academic community on specification and analysis of policies for Distributed Systems mostly concentrating on authorisation policies. Although there are strong similarities in the concepts and techniques used by the different communities there is no commonly accepted terminology or notation for specifying policy. Several research groups are looking at high-level aspects of policy related to Enterprise Modelling. An ISO Open Distributed Processing working group is defining Policy and Role concepts within the Enterprise Viewpoint. Enterprise goals or Service Level Agreements can be considered as high-level abstract policies which must be progressively refined into implementable policies. The work on the specification and analysis of Business Rules is also relevant. The common concept of policy, within all of the above communities, is that polices define a set of rules governing choices in the behaviour of the system. The motivation is to be able to modify policy in order to change system behaviour without having to re-implement the system, or restructure the requirements specification. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Authors are invited to submit papers addressing but not limited to the following topics: Abstractions and Notations for Policy Specification Security Policies and Role Based Access Control Management Policies Policy Based Networking Implementation Models and Techniques Services for Storing and Manipulating Policies Policy Support for Active Networks and Mobile Environments Application-Specific Policy Frameworks Policy Refinement Policy Analysis Business Rules Standardisation Activities Case Studies The emphasis of the workshop will be on practical approaches to policy, however, novel contributions are encouraged. Workshop format --------------- The workshop will include both invited papers and presentations on accepted refereed papers which will be published (probably by IEEE Press) in a proceedings. There will be substantial time allocated for discussions as well as panel sessions. PAPER SUBMISSIONS ----------------- Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. They should be full papers and be no longer than 10 pages IEEE double column format. Submissions must include a cover page in ASCII format, containing the title, author name(s) and affiliation(s), the complete address (telephone, fax, email) of the corresponding author, and an abstract (max 150 words) followed by up to 5 keywords. Papers under review elsewhere must not be submitted to Policy 2000. Authors are requested to submit papers in electronic PDF or Postscript format. Instructions for electronic submissions will be available at the following URL: http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/events/policy-2001/ IMPORTANT DATES July 31, 2000: Submission of Full Papers September 26, 2000: Notifications of Acceptance October 26, 2000: Camera-ready Papers Due Date January 29-31, 2001 Workshop Local Arrangements ------------------ The workshop will be held at Hewlett-Packard's European research centre in Bristol. It is conveniently reached by road and rail (to Bristol Parkway Station) from London and Heathrow Airport. It takes approximately 80 minutes by train from London, Paddington. Directions and local information can be found at the HP's web site: http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com Hotel rooms will reserved at a local hotel. Details and costs to be provided. Organising Committee --------------------- Conference Chair Morris Sloman Department of Computing, Imperial College London SW7 2BZ, UK Phone: +44 20 7594 8279 Fax: +44 20 7581 8024 email: m.sloman@doc.ic.ac.uk Program Co-Chairs Emil Lupu Department of Computing, Imperial College Phone: +44 20 7594 8249 Fax: +44 20 7581 8024 London SW7 2BZ, UK email: e.c.lupu@doc.ic.ac.uk Jorge Lobo Bell Labs 600 Mountain Ave., 2c-219 Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA Voice: +1-908-582-1731 Fax: +1-908-582-4092 Mail: jlobo@research.bell-labs.com Program Committee ------------------ David Black, EMC, USA Matt Blaze, AT&T, USA Jan Chomicki, Monmouth University, USA Naranker Dulay, Imperial College, UK Ed Ellesson, Tivoli Systems, USA Francisco Garcia, Agilent Laboratories, Scotland Cheh Goh, HP Labs, Bristol, UK Kohei Iseda, Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan Peter Linington, University of Kent, UK Hugh Mahon, HP, USA Ian Marshall, BT Labs., UK Zoran Milosevic, DSTC, Brisbane, Australia Naftaly Minksy, Rutgers University, USA Jonathan Moffett, University of York, UK Ken Moody, Cambridge University, UK Ravi Sandhu, George Mason University, USA Edgar Sibley, George Mason University, USA John Strassner, Cisco, USA Vijay Varadharajan, University of Western Sydney, Australia Dinesh Verma, IBM, USA Andrea Westerinen, Cisco, USA Local Organisation: ------------------- Jan Ward Events Co-ordinator HP Labs, Bristol Phone: +44 117 312 8032 Fax: +44 117 312 9364 email: jan@hplb.hpl.hp.com __________________________________________________ **** Note new phone numbers Professor Morris Sloman Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine Department of Computing 180 Queen's Gate London SW7 2BZ, U.K. Phone: +44 20 7594 8279 Fax: +44 20 7581 8024 Email: m.sloman@doc.ic.ac.uk WWW: http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/~mss

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Policy 2001: Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and
Networks

29-31 January 2001 Hosted by: HP Laboratories, Bristol, UK
Technical Co-sponsored by IEEE ComSoc (not yet approved)

See: http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/events/policy-2001/ for the
latest information

Policy based systems are the subject of a wide range of activities
in universities, standardisation bodies and within industry. They
have a wide spectrum of applications ranging from quality of
service management within networks to security and enterprise
modelling. This workshop will provide a forum for discussion and
collaboration between researchers, developers and users of policy
based systems. It will bring together the various communities
working on policy and follows on from the successful informal
Policy Workshop held in November 1999 (see
http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/events/policy-99/).

Within the Internet community there is considerable interest in
Policy Based Networking. A number of companies have announced
tools to support the specification and deployment of policies.
Much of this work is focused on policies for quality of service
management within networks and the Internet Engineering and
Distributed Management Task Forces (IETF/DMTF) is actively working
on standards related to this area (see
http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/research/policies for links).

The Security community has focused on the specification and
analysis of access control policy which has evolved into the work
on Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). There has been work over a
number of years in the academic community on specification and
analysis of policies for Distributed Systems mostly concentrating
on authorisation policies.  Although there are strong similarities
in the concepts and techniques used by the different communities
there is no commonly accepted terminology or notation for
specifying policy.

Several research groups are looking at high-level aspects of
policy related to Enterprise Modelling. An ISO Open Distributed
Processing working group is defining Policy and Role concepts
within the Enterprise Viewpoint. Enterprise goals or Service Level
Agreements can be considered as high-level abstract policies which
must be progressively refined into implementable policies. The
work on the specification and analysis of Business Rules is also
relevant.

The common concept of policy, within all of the above communities,
is that polices define a set of rules governing choices in the
behaviour of the system. The motivation is to be able to modify
policy in order to change system behaviour without having to
re-implement the system, or restructure the requirements
specification.

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----
Authors are invited to submit papers addressing but not limited to the
following topics:

  Abstractions and Notations for Policy Specification
  Security Policies and Role Based Access Control
  Management Policies
  Policy Based Networking
  Implementation Models and Techniques
  Services for Storing and Manipulating Policies
  Policy Support for Active Networks and Mobile Environments
  Application-Specific Policy Frameworks
  Policy Refinement
  Policy Analysis
  Business Rules
  Standardisation Activities
  Case Studies

The emphasis of the workshop will be on practical approaches to
policy, however, novel contributions are encouraged.

Workshop format
---------------
The workshop will include both invited papers and presentations on
accepted refereed papers which will be published (probably by IEEE
Press) in a proceedings. There will be substantial time allocated
for discussions as well as panel sessions.

PAPER SUBMISSIONS
-----------------
Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or
experiences. They should be full papers and be no longer than 10
pages IEEE double column format. Submissions must include a cover
page in ASCII format, containing the title, author name(s) and
affiliation(s), the complete address (telephone, fax, email) of
the corresponding author, and an abstract (max 150 words) followed
by up to 5 keywords.

Papers under review elsewhere must not be submitted to Policy
2000.

Authors are requested to submit papers in electronic PDF or
Postscript format. Instructions for electronic submissions will be
available at the following URL:
http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/events/policy-2001/

IMPORTANT DATES
      July 31, 2000: Submission of Full Papers
      September 26, 2000: Notifications of Acceptance
      October 26, 2000: Camera-ready Papers Due Date
      January 29-31, 2001 Workshop

Local Arrangements
------------------
The workshop will be held at Hewlett-Packard's European research
centre in Bristol. It is conveniently reached by road and rail (to
Bristol Parkway Station) from London and Heathrow Airport. It
takes approximately 80 minutes by train from London, Paddington.
Directions and local information can be found at the HP's web
site: http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com

Hotel rooms will reserved at a local hotel. Details and costs to
be provided.

Organising Committee
---------------------

Conference Chair

Morris Sloman
Department of Computing, Imperial College
London SW7 2BZ, UK
Phone: +44 20 7594 8279
Fax: +44 20 7581 8024
email: m.sloman@doc.ic.ac.uk

Program Co-Chairs

Emil Lupu
Department of Computing, Imperial College
Phone: +44 20 7594 8249
Fax: +44 20 7581 8024
London SW7 2BZ, UK
email: e.c.lupu@doc.ic.ac.uk

Jorge Lobo
Bell Labs
600 Mountain Ave., 2c-219
Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA
Voice: +1-908-582-1731
Fax: +1-908-582-4092
Mail: jlobo@research.bell-labs.com

Program Committee
------------------

David Black, EMC, USA
Matt Blaze, AT&T, USA
Jan Chomicki, Monmouth University, USA
Naranker Dulay, Imperial College, UK
Ed Ellesson, Tivoli Systems, USA
Francisco Garcia, Agilent Laboratories, Scotland
Cheh Goh, HP Labs, Bristol, UK
Kohei Iseda, Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan
Peter Linington, University of Kent, UK
Hugh Mahon, HP, USA
Ian Marshall, BT Labs., UK
Zoran Milosevic, DSTC, Brisbane, Australia
Naftaly Minksy, Rutgers University, USA
Jonathan Moffett, University of York, UK
Ken Moody, Cambridge University, UK
Ravi Sandhu, George Mason University, USA
Edgar Sibley, George Mason University, USA
John Strassner, Cisco, USA
Vijay Varadharajan, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Dinesh Verma, IBM, USA
Andrea Westerinen, Cisco, USA

Local Organisation:
-------------------

Jan Ward
Events Co-ordinator
HP Labs, Bristol
Phone: +44 117 312 8032
Fax: +44 117 312 9364
email: jan@hplb.hpl.hp.com
__________________________________________________
**** Note new phone numbers

Professor Morris Sloman
Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine
Department of Computing
180 Queen's Gate
London SW7 2BZ, U.K.
Phone: +44 20 7594 8279 Fax: +44 20 7581 8024
Email: m.sloman@doc.ic.ac.uk
WWW: http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/~mss