Policy Conflicts in Home Automation

Citation

Maternaghan C & Turner KJ (2013) Policy Conflicts in Home Automation. Computer Networks, 57 (12), pp. 2429-2441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2013.02.026

Abstract
The nature of home automation is introduced. It is argued that end users should be able to define how the home system reacts to changing circumstances. Policies are employed as user-defined rules for how this should happen. The architecture of the Homer home automation system is briefly overviewed. The Homer policy system and the Homeric policy language it supports are explained. A technique is described for offline conflict analysis among policies (the analogue of the feature interaction problem). A substantial worked example shows how conflict detection is performed on a range of sample home policies.

Keywords
Feature Interaction; Home Automation; Policy-Based Management; Policy Conflict; Management; Computer science; Computer network architectures; Computer software

Journal
Computer Networks: Volume 57, Issue 12

People

Professor KEN Turner

Emeritus Professor, Computing Science