A Framework for Contractual Resource Sharing in Coalitions

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Author

B.D. Firozabadi, M. Sergot

Entry type

inproceedings

Abstract

We develop a framework for specifying and reasoning about policies for sharing resources in coalitions, focussing here on a particular, common type of contract in which coalition members agree to make available some total amount of specified resource over a given time period. The main part of the framework is a policy language with two basic elements: 'obligations' (of a member enterprise to provide a total amount of resources over a given time period) express the coalition policy , and 'entitlements' (granted by an enterprise to other coalition members) express the local policies of the coalition members. We discuss the coalitions under which a local policy can be said to be in compliance with, or meet, the obligations of a coalition policy, and the conditions under which an obligation, and by extension a contract, can be said to be violated or fulfilled.

Date

2004

Journal

Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY '04)

Key alpha

Firozabadi

Publication Date

2004-01-01

1.Introduction 2.Overview 3.Formal Framework 4.Future work 5.Related work 6.Conclusion

Copyright

2004 IEEE

Language

English

Location

A hard-copy of this is in the Papers Cabinet

Subject

Contractual Resource sharing in Coalitions

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@Inproceedings{ Firozabadi,
	title = "A Framework for Contractual Resource Sharing in Coalitions",
	author = "B.D. Firozabadi, M. Sergot",
	year = "2004",
	journal = "Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY '04)",
	abstract = "We develop a framework for specifying and reasoning about policies for sharing resources in coalitions, focussing here on a particular, common type of contract in which coalition members agree to make available some total amount of specified resource over a given time period.  The main part of the framework is a policy language with two basic elements: 'obligations' (of a member enterprise to provide a total amount of resources over a given time period) express the coalition policy , and 'entitlements' (granted by an enterprise to other coalition members) express the local policies of the coalition members.  We discuss the coalitions under which a local policy can be said to be in compliance with, or meet, the obligations of a coalition policy, and the conditions under which an obligation, and by extension a contract, can be said to be violated or fulfilled.",
	contents = "1.Introduction
2.Overview
3.Formal Framework
4.Future work
5.Related work
6.Conclusion",
	copyright = "2004 IEEE",
	language = "English",
	subject = "Contractual Resource sharing in Coalitions",
}