POWER prototype: towards integrated policy-based management

A policy-based management system is only really useful if it allows not only high level description of abstract policy, but also enables such policy to be refined and eventually mapped into an appropriate configuration for controlling devices in the managed system. Such a full integration has only been discussed in the literature but not realised so far. Our approach, implemented as the POWER prototype, demonstrates a way towards making it a reality in practice.

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