A policy Description Language for Automatic Software Operations

Abstract

Recently, the software has become very large scale and in addition its structure has become very complex. Hence, it is required for software managers and users to have considerable knowledge concerning the software systems and furthermore to perform many manual operations for maintaining and controlling them. In this paper, based on the notion of policy, we consider a sophisticated way to resolve such a serious problem. A policy description language is proposed to support the automatic software operations in which a policy is described in an abstract level using IS-A hierarchy of knowledge. Furthermore, we present the design to implement the policy system, and discuss its application to the Inter-Domain Routing Protocol(IDRP).