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The specification of a policy is performed in a policy language, usually following a textual representation. However, humans process images faster than text and they are prepared to process information presented in two or more dimensions: sometimes it is easier to explain things using figures and their graphical relations than writing textual representations.
This paper describes a visual language, in the form of graphics that are executed in a networking environment, to define a network management policy. This approach allows to map visual tokens and corresponding arrangements into other languages to which a mapping is defined.
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Lopes, R., Raimundo, N., Varanda, M., Oliveira, J., Roque, V. (2005). Executable Graphics for PBNM. In: Magedanz, T., Madeira, E.R.M., Dini, P. (eds) Operations and Management in IP-Based Networks. IPOM 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3751. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11567486_12
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