Kevin Carey, Kevin Feeney, Dave Lewis

State of the Art: Policy Techniques for Adaptive Management of Smart Spaces

Policies represent an important existing approach to providing runtime flexibility in the operation of management components and systems. Smart Space will requirement management systems that are highly adaptive and which can accept modification to their behaviour at runtime from a number of appropriately authorise roles. Policies will therefore be a key mechanism in providing the runtime configuration of component behaviour needed in any adaptive smart space management system. This paper aims to give a brief overview of the state of the art in the structure of policy languages and their application, the latter with a focus on access control and management of quality of service.