<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">IEEE International Symposium on Policies for<br>Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY 2011)<br><br>CALL FOR PAPERS<br><br>6-8 June 2011<br>Pisa, Italy<br><a href="http://ieee-policy.org/">http://ieee-policy.org</a><br><br><br>The symposium brings together researchers and<br>practitioners working on policy-based systems<br>across a wide range of application domains<br>including policy-based networking, privacy, trust<br>and security management, autonomic computing,<br>pervasive systems and enterprise systems. POLICY<br>2011 is the 12th in a series of successful events,<br>which have provided a forum for discussion and<br>collaboration between researchers, developers and<br>users of policy-based systems. In addition to the<br>areas mentioned above, we specifically encourage<br>this year contributions on policy-based techniques<br>in support of Cloud computing and Enterprise<br>Service Oriented applications as well as the use<br>of reasoning, verification and learning techniques<br>in policy-based systems.<br><br><br>POLICY 2011 invites unpublished novel<br>contributions on all aspects of policy-based<br>systems. Papers must describe original work and<br>must not have been accepted or submitted for<br>publication elsewhere. Submitted papers will be<br>evaluated for technical contribution, originality,<br>and significance. Topics of interest include, but<br>are not limited to the following:<br><br><br>Privacy and Security:<br>- Frameworks and tools for managing the privacy<br>and the security policy life-cycle<br>- Architectures for deployment and enforcement of<br>privacy and security policies<br>- Refinement of high-level privacy/security requirements<br>into policies<br>- Detection and resolution of inconsistencies in privacy<br>and security policies<br>- Usability of policy-based privacy and security<br>management tools<br><br><br>Policy Models and Languages:<br>- Abstract models and languages for policy specification<br>- Semantic Web rule languages for policy reasoning<br>- Policy standards, their extensions and refinements<br>- Formal semantics of policies<br>- NLP and policy specification<br>- Methodologies and tools for specifying, analyzing,<br>refining, and evaluating policies<br>- Detection and resolution of policy conflicts<br>- Policy negotiation models and techniques<br>- Representation of belief, trust, and risk and their<br>use in conjunction with policy-based systems<br>- Systems and tools for the management of policies<br>- Policy visualization<br>- Usability of policy languages and representations<br><br><br>Policy Applications:<br>- Federated policy management in heterogeneous<br>organisational contexts and control domains<br>- Case studies of applying policy-based management in<br>different application domains<br>- Application of policies for resource allocation,<br>autonomic computing, systems management,<br>QoS adaptation and security<br>- Policy-based systems for cloud computing, and service<br>oriented applications<br>- Policy-based networking, including collaborative security,<br>pervasive computing, and mobile systems<br>- Policy-based Semantic Web applications<br>- Business rules and organizational modelling<br>- Policy Metrics: evaluation of the effectiveness of policies<br>- Policy applications in on-demand, utility based computing<br>- Resource virtualization and policy-based collaboration<br>- Cross-domain policy coordination and negotiation<br>- Scalability of policy-based management<br>- Architectures of policy-based management systems<br>- Policy Learning and automated policy generation<br><br><br>System demonstration submissions will be evaluated<br>on the basis of their technical merit and novelty.<br>Of particular interest are systems that illustrate<br>research contributions and innovative applications<br>of policy-based technologies. Those interested in<br>demonstrating a system/application should submit a<br>description following the instructions in the<br>submission information section. Commercial<br>products are eligible, but sales and marketing<br>activities are not appropriate.<br><br><br>Important Dates<br><br>Paper Registration deadline: 8 December 2010<br>Paper submission deadline: 15 December 2010<br>Author notification: 18 February 2011<br><br>System demonstration submission deadline: 20 January 2011<br>System demonstrator notification: 18 February 2011<br><br>Camera ready copy due: 18 March 2011<br>(for both technical papers and demos)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><br><br>Symposium dates: 6-8 June 2011<br><br><br>Paper Submission Information<br><br>Papers under review elsewhere must NOT be<br>submitted to Policy 2011. Proceedings from the<br>Symposium will be published by IEEE Computer<br>Society; submissions must be in IEEE Proceedings<br>2-Column format (<a href="http://ieeeformats.notlong.com/">http://ieeeformats.notlong.com</a>),<br>and must satisfy the following page limits:<br><br>Policy 2011 invites contributions in the form of either:<br>- Technical papers (max. length 8 pages).<br>- Short position papers describing preliminary experimental<br>results, experiences with deployed policy systems, new applications<br>or new policy research challenges (max. length 4 pages)<br>- System demonstration descriptions illustrating innovative<br>applications of policy-based technologies<br>(max length 2 pages, not including references).<br><br>We particularly encourage contributions from industry<br>in the form of long or short papers.<br><br>Sincerely,<br><br>Daniel Olmedilla De la Calle and Alessandra Russo<br>IEEE POLICY 2011 TPC Co-Chairs<br></body></html>