The RLG/NARA trusted digital repository (TDR) certification checklist defines a set of preservation assessment criteria. The criteria can be mapped into management policies that define how a digital preservation environment is operated. We explore how these management policies can be automated through their characterization as rules that control preservation services. By integrating a rule-base...

Policy-based management (PBM) is being used as technological solution on the managing and controlling complex networks and systems. One of the most important issues involved in the life-cycle of PBM is the policies creation because the future decisions made by the management system depend on this, and therefore, the network behavior. In this paper we present a novel model for creating managemen...

Background: Although phytoremediation is a promising method for pollution control, biomass produced by the remediation process must be managed; otherwise, it will eventually return to the environment and cause secondary pollution. Therefore, research and policy development for the post-remediation management of biomass are both required. Results: While there are many published studies of phytor...

This article proposes an extension to the Policy Based Network Management (PBNM). Specifically, we propose an approach for the distribution of management policies with the focus on Quality of Service. This approach communicates the management up to the point of decision. This requires corrective actions for the device, reporting changes in the configuration, registering of the managed resources...

Management of security policies has become increasingly difficult given the number of domains to manage, taken into consideration their extent and their complexity. Security experts has to deal with a variety of frameworks and specification languages used in different domains that may belong to any Cloud Computing or Distributed Systems. This wealth of frameworks and languages make the manageme...

This paper presents the Authorization Service provided by Tivoli Policy Director (PD) and its use by PD family members as well as third-party applications. Policies are defined over an object namespace and stored in a database, which is managed via a management console and accessed through an Authorization API. The object namespace abstracts from heterogeneous systems and thus enables the defin...

desertification of the arid and semi-arid lands of the world has been proceeding for more than a thousand years.human-induced degradation in these areas is regularly cited as one of the principal causes of desertification.euphrates and tigris basin as the case study of this research in some aspects is almost unique in the world. but thisbasin has been confronted to progressive desertification. ...

As organizations grow larger and more complex, and as cybersecurity becomes an increasingly important concern, there are growing needs for languages that can express complex security policies of organizations and for efficient mechanisms to enforce the policies. An essential function of security policies is to control authorization, that is, to determine whether a request to access a resource s...