All, Just wanted to clarify the e-mail I sent out this morning.
We have no interest in contributing the source code of the policy analysis
package to Imperius, but we will make the analysis module to work with
Imperius and we will make the module available through other distribution
channels.
This requires Imperius to open hocks for the analysis module to access the
internals of Imperius and also to provide additional information needed by
the analysis module. Are people in the Imperius team interested to make
such changes?
Regards,
Xiping Wang
IBM T.J.Watson Research Center
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I agree: seems like a nice addition. -- David
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Xiping,
I think this would be a great addition.
Xiping Wang wrote:
> All,
>
> We, at IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, have been developing a policy
> analysis module on top of Imperius that allows a policy writer perform
the
> following tasks automatically.
> 1) Dominance check: finding if a policy is dominated by other policies,
> thus removing redundancy among policies.
> 2) Simultaneous applicability check: finding if two policies are
> simultaneously applicable, thus preventing potential conflicts at
> specification time.
>
Can you define what you mean by applicability?
> 3) Coverage check: finding if a set of policies covers all the sensor
> spaces required, thus ensuring policies specified adequately.
> 4) Meta policy based conflict detection/resolution: detecting/resolving
> conflicts at runtime.
>
As in the same conditions elicit conflicting actions?
> 4) Rule-based policy transformation: allowing transformation of abstract
> policy into concrete policies or vice versa.
>
Abstract in the OO sense?
> The package implements advanced algorithms for policy analysis and
requires
> certain changes to be made to the current Imperius implementation for
> integration.
>
Any IP regarding this new work?
-- mark
