Providing Spatially Event-Condition-Action Policies in order to Resolve Policy Conflict in Ambient Intelligence Environment

Ambient intelligence environment contains a large number of devices, services and applications which govern specific tasks to assist end-users. Each service domain has itself policy and managing such environments needs policies to determine suitable behavior to certain events. Policies are the way of specifying and influencing management behavior within a system, without coding the behavior into the manager agents. Typically, policy-based management systems use some form of authorization and obligation policies to guide system behavior. Obligation policies specify what actions an entity must or must not perform on the occurrence of an event. Whereas, authorization policies specify what actions an entity can or cannot perform on the occurrence of an event.
Increasing ambient services may increase the number of users in joint areas of several domains simultaneously. These individuals will encounter unasked services which are sent by different domains in different policy patterns. In such conditions the role of policy conflict resolution and also service sending management is very important. Figure 1 shows two nested service domains with two different policies. The users locating in overlapped area are influenced by P1 and P2 services simultaneously. Consequently, conflicts will appear.