Flexible Regulation of Dynamic Coalitions

国家科学基金会分布式系统研究CEISE/CNSABSTRACT建议编号：0410485主要研究人员：俄罗斯天然气工业大学明斯基研究所：新不伦瑞克罗格斯大学建议标题：动态联盟的灵活管理各种类型的组织为了合作而组成联盟的趋势越来越大。迫切需要对这种联盟(有时称为网格)进行管理，以确保符合其定义的政策，并保护成员组织的利益。在目前的技术下，这种监管通常是以一种特别的方式进行的，通常涉及个别组织的管理员或联盟官员的人工干预。这使得联盟的部署和演变非常费力、不灵活和不可靠。该项目的目标是开发一种动态联盟的监管机制，具有以下特点：(1)高表达能力；(2)可扩展的执行；(3)灵活性，即(I)每个成员组织能够制定其内部政策，并能够随意改变它--仅受全球联盟政策的约束--独立于联盟中其他组织的内部政策；(Ii)新成员很容易加入联盟。这项计划应该有以下影响：第一，它将为不同组织通过联盟进行合作提供灵活和安全的手段。第二，政策层级的概念将在许多领域有用，除了联合之外--例如在为由许多部门组成的组织建立管理框架方面。第三，联盟的监管机制将在软件工程、分布式系统和电子商务的教学中有用。布雷特·D·弗莱施项目主任，CEISE/CNS，2004年6月28日。

National Science FoundationDistributed Systems Research CISE/CNSABSTRACTProposal Number: 0410485Principal Investigator: Minsky, NaftalyInstitution: Rutgers Univ New BrunswickProposal Title: Flexible Regulation of Dynamic CoalitionsThere is a growing tendency for organizations of various kinds to form coalitions in order to collaborate. And there is a critical need for such coalitions (sometimes called grids) to be regulated in order to ensure conformance with their defining policy and in order to protect the interest of member organizations. With current technologies, such a regula-tion is usually carried out in an ad hoc manner, often involving manual intervention by administrators of individual organizations, or by officers of the coalition. This makes the deployment of a coalition, and its evolution, very laborious, inflexible and unreliable.The objectives of this project is to develop a regulatory mechanism for dynamic coali-tions, that has the following characteristics: (1) high expressive power; (2) scalable en-forcement; and (3) flexibility, which means that (i) each member-organization is able to formulate its internal policy, and to change it at will---subject only to the global coalition policy---independently of the internal policies of other organizations in the coalition; (ii) and it is easy for a new member to join a given coalition.This project should have the following impact: First, it would provide flexible and secure means for various organizations to collaborate by forming coalitions. Second, the con-cept of policy-hierarchy to be developed, would be useful in many domains, besides coa-litions--such as in establishing regulatory frameworks for organizations that consists of many departments. Third, the regulatory mechanism for coalitions would be useful in the teaching of software engineering, distributed systems, and e-commerce.Dr. Brett D. FleischProgram Director, CISE/CNSJune 28, 2004.