POLICE distributed conflict detection architecture

POLICE [T. Dursun and B. Orencik, 2003] is a novel policy based management framework composed of a policy specification language and its deployment models for distribution of policies. In this paper we present distributed policy conflict detection model employed in POLICE policy framework. POLICE model is designed to handle application domain-specific conflicts [E. Lupu and M. Sloman, 1999] only, whereas the modality conflicts [E. Lupu and M. Sloman, 1999] are already eliminated. The POLICE policy specification language does not include negative policy concept.