Policy and Contract Management for Semantic Web Services
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Date
03/2004Author
Uszok, A
Bradshaw, J M
Jeffers, R
Johnson, M
Tate, Austin
Dalton, J
Aitken, Stuart
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Abstract
This paper summarizes our efforts to develop capabilities for policy and contract management for Semantic Web Services applications. KAoS services and tools allow for the specification, management, analyzes, disclosure and enforcement of policies represented in OWL. We discuss three current Semantic Web Services applications as
examples of the kinds of roles that a policy management framework can play: as an authorization service in grid
computing environments, as a distributed policy specification and enforcement capability for a semantic matchmaker, and as a verification tool for services composition and contract management.