Call for Papers

			     POLICY 2003
		  IEEE 4th International Workshop on
	    Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks
			   Lake Como, Italy
			    June 4-6, 2003
                 http://www.labs.agilent.com/policy2003/

Policy-based systems continue to be the subject of a wide range of
activities in universities, standardization bodies and within
industry.  They have a wide spectrum of applicability ranging from
systems management to quality of service adaptation to security and
enterprise modeling.

POLICY 2003 invites contributions on all aspects of policy-based
computing.  Papers must describe original work and must not have been
accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere.  Submitted papers
will be evaluated for technical contribution, originality and
significance.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    * processes, methodologies and tools for discovering, specifying
      reasoning about and refining policy
    * abstractions and languages for policy specification
    * policy models for access-control, systems management, QoS
      adaptation, intrusion detection, privacy
    * policy-based networking
    * policy frameworks for active networks, mobile systems, e-commerce
    * implementation models and techniques
    * integrating policies into existing systems and environments
    * provisions of policies
    * business rules and organizational modeling
    * trust models and trust management
    * extensions and refinement to policy standards
    * case studies of applying policy-based technologies
    * policy management in the large: peer-to-peer, grid and web-based services
    * policies for electronic persistence presence and pervasive
      presence of computing and networking capabilities

Papers will be reviewed by at least three international experts.
Reviewers' comments will be returned to authors after refereeing.
Accepted papers will be included in the Workshop Proceedings,
published by IEEE CS Press.

Paper Submission

    * Papers must be submitted by 15 December 2002
    * Papers must adhere to IEEE format
    * Papers must be submitted in electronic PDF or Postscript format