Non-Functional Policies

Computability classes for enforcement mechanisms

“…Consequently, there are interesting questions about how to design a suitably powerful yet usable policy specification language for such a system. For example, various meta-level architectures like Aspect Oriented Programming [Kiczales et al 1997] have been suggested as general frameworks for enforcing a variety of security policies [Bert Robben and Verbaeten 1999], but it is not clear what class of security policies they can enforce.…”

Techniques for Dynamic Adaptation of Mobile Services

“…Presented by the DistriNet research group in Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Correlate [16,33,34,40], is a concurrent object-oriented language based on C++ (and later Java) to support mobile agents. It has a flexible runtime engine to support migration and location independent inter-object communication.…”

“…Many policies will also contain some restrictions or guards confining the rule action to appropriate occasions. This event-conditionaction (ECA) format is standard for rule-based adaptation systems [4,5,6,8,9,16,19,33,34,35,36,40], where an adaptation management system is responsible for monitoring these events, evaluating the conditions and initiating the management action on the targeted managed object. In a policy-based dynamic adaptation system it should be possible to edit the rule set and have them re-interpreted to support the dynamic addition of new rules or changes in policy.…”

Dynamic Component Composition in .NET.

“…Run-time reflection is a powerful technique that is successfully used to implement non-functional requirements such as load balancing, fault tolerance and security [2], [9], [10], [11]. The code that realizes the non-functional requirements is expressed as meta-programs using a metaobject protocol to reflect the base-level behavior.…”