Managing the policies of non-technical users in a dynamic world

In this paper, we describe the use of description logic as the basis for a policy representation language and show how it is used in our implementation of a policy managed pervasive environment. We compare our approach within this domain to conventional policy management in both implementation and analysis, and highlight the difficulties presented by dynamic environments.

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