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Achieving High-Level Directives Using Strategy-Trees

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Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments (MACE 2009)

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A strategy-tree provides a systematic approach to the evaluation of the effectiveness of deployed policy sets and a mechanism to dynamically alter policy sets (i.e., alter strategy) at run-time in response to feedback. This paper provides an overview of the strategy-tree concept and its application to a policy-based management system for a data center. Results are presented that show that the strategy-tree can be used to balance tradeoffs between high level objectives.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

    Bradley Simmons & Hanan Lutfiyya

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  1. Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH),, 790-784 San 31, Hyoja-Dong, Nam-Gu, Pohang, ,, Gyungbuk, Korea

    John C. Strassner

  2. Laboratoire d’informatique Gaspard-Monge - UMR CNRS 8049 (IGM-LabInfo), 77454 Marne-la-Ballée Cedex 2, France, and Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique pour l’industrie et l’entreprise (ENSIIE), 1 Square de la résistance, 91025 Evry cedex, France

    Yacine M. Ghamri-Doudane

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Simmons, B., Lutfiyya, H. (2009). Achieving High-Level Directives Using Strategy-Trees. In: Strassner, J.C., Ghamri-Doudane, Y.M. (eds) Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments. MACE 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5844. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05006-0_4

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