Call for Papers
Deadline for paper submission has been extended to Jan 9, 2004.

5th IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks
7-9 June 2004, IBM T.J Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York.
http://www.policy-workshop.org/2004

The policy workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on policy-based systems across a wide range of application areas including policy-based networking, security management, storage area networking, and enterprise systems. Policy 2004 is the 5th in a series of successful workshops which since 1999 have provided a forum for discussion and collaboration between researchers, developers and users of policy-based systems. This year, in addition to the latest research results from the communities working in the areas mentioned above, we encourage contributions on policy-based techniques in support of: autonomic computing, ubiquitous systems and business rules.

As in the previous two years the policy workshop will be co-located with SACMAT 2004.

POLICY 2004 invites contributions on all aspects of policy-based computing. 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:

Policy Definition and Models:

- abstractions and languages for policy specification processes,
- methodologies, and tools for discovering, specifying, reasoning about, and refining policy,
- extensions and refinements of policy standards
- relationships between policies, e.g. hierarchies

Policy Mechanisms

- implementation and enforcement techniques
- integrating policies into existing systems and environments
- policy management in the large: peer-to-peer, grid and
- web-based services, interoperability

Policy Applications

- policy models for access-control, systems management, QoS adaptation, intrusion detection and privacy

- policy based networking, including active networks, mobile systems and e-commerce
- business rules and organizational modeling
- trust models and trust management policies
- policies for pervasive presence of computing and networking capabilities
- case studies of applying policy-based technologies
- policy-based management and autonomic computing

Dates

Paper submission deadline: 9 January 2004
Camera ready copy due: 15 March 2004
Workshop dates: 7-9 June 2004

Submission Information

Papers under review elsewhere must NOT be submitted to Policy 2004. The proceedings of the workshop will be published by IEEE Computer Society and submissions must be in IEEE Proceedings format.

Policy 2004 invites contributions in the form of either:
- Technical papers (max. length 10 pages).
- Short position papers describing preliminary experimental results, experiences with deployed policy systems, and new applications and directions for policies (max. length 4 pages)

Organizing Committee

General Chairs: Dinesh Verma and Murthy Devarakonda, IBM Research

Program Chairs: Emil Lupu (Imperial College London) and Madhur Kohli (Bell Labs)

Finance Chair: Seraphin Calo, IBM Research

Web Chair: Paridhi Verma, IBM Research

Publicity Chair: Rebecca Montanari, University of Bologna

Publications Chair: Ritu Chadha, Telcordia