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We investigate the issue of conflict detection and resolution for policies formulated as sets of event-condition-action rules. We focus on the temporal dimension of policies. In particular, we consider sequence events in rules, conflict resolution through cancellation or delay, and temporal action constraints. We formally define monitors — procedures for resolving conflicts. We present algorithms for the computation of optimal monitors.
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Chomicki, J., Lobo, J. (2001). Monitors for History-Based Policies. In: Sloman, M., Lupu, E.C., Lobo, J. (eds) Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks. POLICY 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1995. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44569-2_4
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