MECHANISM TO PROVIDE DEBUGGING AND OPTIMIZATION IN POLICY AND KNOWLEDGE CONTROLLED DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS, THROUGH THE USE OF TAGGED POLICIES AND KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION ELEMENTS

摘要

A mechanism to provide debugging and optimization in policy and knowledge controlled distributed computing system through the use of tagged policies is provided. An aspect of the mechanism tags one or more policies, for instance, at their creation time, execution time and/or at any other time an event that affects the policies occur. Decisions made according to policy execution or evaluation may be traced using the tags.