Model-Driven Engineering of a General Policy Modeling Language

Abstract

Despite many efforts in developing policy languages which work in different logical domains and with various reasoning engines, there has been limited attention paid to bringing policy definition, design, and integration into the realm of the mainstream software development process. There seems to be a lack of appropriate software development tooling that can allow for easy representation and integration of policies with other pieces of software at the design time. This paper presents a General Policy Modeling Language (GPML), following the rationale of Model Driven Engineering (MDE), as a means to design policies and integrate them to the software development process. We describe the logical foundation and the modeling rationale behind GPML and show how it is adjustable to the existing policy languages.

Specification and Refinement of Domain-Specific ECA Policies

“…The authors of [9] present a model-driven approach to design policies and integrate them into the software development process. The approach is based on MDE concepts and uses a UML profile for modeling policies.…”

Formal Specification of Domain-Specific ECA Policy Models

“…III. RELATED WORK Other approaches for the modeling of policies include GPML [11], the CIM Policy Model [12], and DEN-ng [3]. All of them use UML as concrete syntax to specify ECA policies in a language-independent way.…”