POLICY 2012 - 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks - POLICY

POLICY 2012 invites unpublished novel contributions on all aspects of policy-based systems. Papers must describe original work and must not have been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. Submitted papers will be evaluated for technical contribution, originality, and significance. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
Privacy and Security
Frameworks and tools for managing the privacy and the security policy life-cycle
Architectures for deployment and enforcement of privacy and security policies
Refinement of high-level privacy/security requirements into policies
Detection and resolution of inconsistencies in privacy and security policies
Usability of policy-based privacy and security management tools
Policy Models and Languages:
Abstract models and languages for policy specification
Semantic Web rule languages for policy reasoning
Policy standards, their extensions and refinements
Formal semantics of policies
NLP and policy specification
Methodologies and tools for specifying, analyzing, refining, and evaluating policies
Detection and resolution of policy conflicts
Policy negotiation models and techniques
Representation of belief, trust, and risk and their use in conjunction with policy-based systems
Systems and tools for the management of policies
Policy visualization
Usability of policy languages and representations
Policy Applications:
Federated policy management in heterogeneous organisational contexts and control domains
Case studies of applying policy-based management in different application domains
Application of policies for resource allocation, autonomic computing, systems management, QoS adaptation and security
Policy-based systems for cloud computing, and service oriented applications
Policy based networking, including collaborative security, pervasive computing, and mobile systems
Policy based Semantic Web applications
Business rules and organizational modelling
Policy Metrics: evaluation of the effectiveness of policies